By Years: Helir-Valdor Seeder
Total Years: 2
Fully Profiled: 2
2025
158 Speeches
The speaker stresses the necessity of cross-party cooperation on strategic matters, such as demography and constitutional reform, urging colleagues to cast their votes based on conscience. He points out that the government has rejected opposition initiatives (for example, establishing a demography commission), which impedes meaningful work. He supports making compromises regarding constitutional amendments to secure broad-based support, even if the resulting solution is less than ideal.
2024
382 Speeches
The speaker demonstrates willingness for broad-based cooperation on security issues, initiating a constitutional amendment for which signatures were also collected from other parliamentary groups. He is open to compromises regarding the details of Isamaa's bills (e.g., the clause on reciprocal agreements) in order to achieve broader support. However, relations with the ruling coalition are tense, and cooperation is hampered by accusations of violating procedural rules.