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00:00:08I would like to expand on the saying "hard in training, easy in battle" as
00:00:11follows: if the training was especially harsh, there will be no
00:00:15battle. Our goal is peace. We could overcome
00:00:19the lack of ideas and monotony in our homeland with bold
00:00:23thoughts and dreams. One of the places where this is possible
00:00:26to achieve is the expert council under the president.
00:00:30Joint search for solutions, reflection, disputes, and humor help people from
00:00:34schoolchildren to academics unleash their best qualities.
00:00:38This is how new ideas are born. The president
00:00:41can acknowledge and support everyone who makes an effort so that
00:00:45families have housing where to raise children,
00:00:49so that childbirth does not lead to financial difficulties,
00:00:52so that credit can be obtained by those who want to build a house in
00:00:56rural areas. Let Estonia, as a country
00:01:00favorable for families with children, be an important topic in the upcoming
00:01:04and all subsequent elections, while no one should be cornered
00:01:07or forced to take a defensive
00:01:09stance. Instead, a positive example should show how success
00:01:13can be achieved. Perhaps we need a tiger's leap in
00:01:17the field of mental health. Yes, undoubtedly, more
00:01:21psychologists and psychiatrists are needed, as well as the ability
00:01:23to notice developmental features and take them into account. It is also
00:01:27necessary to relieve painful tension. useful tension that
00:01:31destroys people,
00:01:33excessive destructive rivalry, attempts to pull each
00:01:37other back, noise, bullying, injustice,
00:01:40loneliness, strong fear and anxiety, a feeling of hopelessness -
00:01:43all this is not an inevitable part of life. Perhaps we dare
00:01:47to free ourselves from these phenomena, and I will make every
00:01:50effort to ensure we have this courage, because why be
00:01:54unhappy and lose when you can be happy
00:01:56and win? The president can...
00:06:24I'll come back later.
00:06:54And now, already in the status of head of state, Ülle
00:06:57Madise walks through the corridors of parliament.
00:07:19and I have caught her in the parliament corridor. Fellow countrymen
00:07:42could take them, and such small things
00:08:00are what make us Estonians. And I think she wants to
00:08:04emphasize that very strongly. She said that
00:08:07maybe in such official gatherings, she
00:08:10does it as little as possible, and rather... it would be good in Mehikoorma,
00:08:14Põltsamaa, at companies,
00:08:17community centers, everything else. I think that is very necessary. He is saying
00:08:20that he considers it very important
00:08:23that Ülle Madise pointed out that a lot
00:08:27is decided not in the offices of power, but right there
00:08:30on the ground, among farmers, in some small
00:08:34regions,
00:08:36to glue together, to mend. I think it is very necessary. Well, Kersti Kaljulaid already spoke about
00:08:40a seamless society in her time.
00:08:42And Ülle Madise has also emphasized in her previous speeches
00:08:46that a small country is not a standard project, but it is
00:08:50tailor-made. Well, what kind of master tailor will we get
00:08:54then? Can you predict what her style will
00:08:57be and whether she will be a president who looks more inward or outward?
00:09:00I think more inward. I think this is also
00:09:04due to her previous
00:09:06job.
00:10:06The public got the impression that Alar Karis's second term
00:10:10was doomed because he quarreled with the Reform Party. Will Ülle Madise
00:10:13be a more comfortable president for you? Not at
00:10:17all, we were not looking for a comfortable president. I think we got a very good
00:10:20president for Estonia.
00:10:24I believe that, uh, answering our colleague's question
00:10:27about whether indeed
00:10:30the previous president's undoing was the conflict with the Reform
00:10:33Party. Meanwhile, once again, the
00:10:37honor guard has lined up in front of the parliament building. The
00:10:54moment Ülle Madise stepped into Toompea Castle at midday on September 2,
00:10:57she already had a rather long journey to becoming head of state
00:11:01behind her.
00:11:03The coalition officially discussed the presidential elections for the first time at the beginning of the
00:11:07year.
00:11:13Politicians began to talk about her in the corridors.
00:11:16True, in the spring and early summer, the main question was whether Alar
00:11:20Karis wanted to continue or not. After Victory Day,
00:11:23the matter became clear.
00:13:00We return to Toompea
00:13:01Castle,
00:13:08where the honor
00:13:10guard has already lined up outside.
00:13:13In fact, we are now about to witness the first part
00:13:17of the ceremony, so to speak,
00:13:20because at
00:13:21the beginning.
00:13:58so to speak, as was described today, that this common ground and positive
00:14:02emotions, that's what we need. Listen, today
00:14:04I'm talking about it,
00:14:07there was doubt in the party until the last minute. How did Ülle Madise convince you then?
00:14:11What convinced her? Well, Ülle is a personality, right? But as it is, I
00:14:14think opinions remained divided until the very end. In that sense, we
00:14:18don't have angels, and President Ülle Madise isn't one either. So
00:14:21I think let's let it remain as it was, that today. "Today
00:14:25is, so to speak, another day, and we don't need to look for the reasons why
00:14:28someone supported whom for what reasons. Lauri Laats,
00:14:31is Ülle Madise also a voter of the Centre Party?
00:14:35If we talk about, so to speak, general polls, then for a Centre Party
00:14:39voter,
00:14:49or not. The question was, if you ask why we didn't support her at first,
00:14:52that's why.
00:15:30The soldiers of the guard battalion
00:15:33are waiting.
00:15:44And very soon
00:15:45the
00:15:48presidents will leave the parliament building.
00:16:32It just so happened that the presidential elections turned out to be such an
00:16:36intrigue this autumn.
00:16:40Now everything has been resolved. The next
00:16:43intrigue will await us already during the parliamentary
00:16:46elections.
00:16:56Then it will become clear in which direction we will move
00:16:58further.
00:17:16As we could see from the footage of the last
00:17:19inauguration 5 years ago, President Karis was a little more
00:17:22fortunate because the weather was somehow warmer and
00:17:25sunnier.
00:17:28Well, since we've already started talking about Alar Karis, it's worth noting that
00:17:31before him there was an unwritten tradition when after
00:17:35parliament, presidents went to
00:17:38a service at church.
00:17:41He declared that Estonia is a secular state and refused
00:17:44to attend church services.
00:18:37expert,
00:18:42but she has already appointed advisors on security
00:18:45issues, internal policy, culture,
00:18:49culture, foreign affairs,
00:18:51communication
00:18:55and defense, moreover,
00:18:58she plans to hold meetings of the defense council
00:19:01more often.
00:19:14here they show us the square
00:19:17from above,
00:19:22by the way, at different times various proposals were made,
00:19:26for example, to move the ceremony to the square or other
00:19:28cities, nothing was
00:19:31changed,
00:19:34representatives
00:19:36and representatives. there have been hints that the National
00:19:39Defense Council
00:19:41will meet more frequently. So what is Ülle Madise's plan?
00:19:45Ülle Madise's plan is to make the National Defense Council
00:19:49truly
00:19:49work.
00:19:56to organize the affairs of the National Defense Council with a very
00:19:59experienced official,
00:20:02Taimar Peterkop. And until now, this national defense has been
00:20:06like this.
00:20:09a ceremonial courtly thing, as
00:20:12President Meri said, "I want it,
00:20:14I take it,
00:20:17I don't take it." And now the goal is that this council will
00:20:20deal with, in a good sense, broad-based
00:20:23national defense, so it will bring together
00:20:26in addition to,
00:20:32power and discuss important questions
00:20:35with the goal of developing broad, not only
00:20:39military, national defense and to see
00:20:43how and if it is necessary
00:20:45to improve.
00:20:50silos and stack them together into a proper
00:20:53fortress. Raimond, is there no danger here that the president
00:20:57will take too
00:20:58much?
00:21:02There is no such danger, because the constitution does not give the president
00:21:05any such power.
00:21:14People are left with headlines, and she also pointed out that behind these headlines there can often
00:21:18be such a political desire.
00:22:30has still emphasized that perhaps I should
00:22:33sharpen the boundaries of the presidential
00:22:36office a bit, and why couldn't
00:22:39President Madise be the one to represent Estonia at NATO
00:22:43summits, and the Prime Minister's task would then be
00:22:46the Supreme Council. What do you think of this idea? Personally,
00:22:50I have actually liked this idea, because
00:22:53if we look at it, the Estonian Prime Minister today has both domestic,
00:22:57economic, and all other issues concerning the internal life of the country, all
00:23:00European Union topics, and all NATO topics, so
00:23:04that is simply too much for one person, one office holder. Raimond
00:23:07says that too much is currently concentrated
00:23:11in the Prime Minister's
00:23:12post.
00:23:19certainly
00:23:56the motive would also be that the cooperation between the Ministry
00:23:59of Foreign Affairs and the President would continue
00:24:02flawlessly. Yes, well, the President's main weapon
00:24:06and means of influence is still the power of words. What is the
00:24:09vision in one sentence that Ülle Madise offered us
00:24:12today? Getting along well with each other,
00:24:15but I would still correct that it is not the power of words, it is also what you
00:24:19do.
00:26:17Thank you very much, esteemed Presidents, and I ask you to sign
00:26:21the Riigikogu's new
00:26:24guest book. Please, first
00:26:27President.
00:26:35now both presidents, the already
00:26:39former and the current
00:26:41one, will leave entries in the parliament's guest book.
00:27:16The book
00:27:17is signed,
00:27:26and the spouses of the presidents
00:27:27also
00:27:31leave their entry.
00:27:42and Lauri Madise,
00:27:45the spouse of the new
00:27:47president,
00:27:52also leaves an
00:27:53entry,
00:27:58and now in the White Hall, it will be done.
00:28:26and I come there and in front of me is the Prime Minister
00:28:29of the Republic of Estonia, Kristjan Michal.
00:29:02in any case, you can say all sorts of things, but he was still, I think,
00:29:05warm to people and
00:29:08brought people together, to put it all
00:29:11together, what emotions
00:29:14he
00:29:16has.
00:29:22In any case, the prime minister must get along well with the president to build
00:29:26and develop this Estonian state together. What is the main
00:29:29task that the new president has for the next...?
00:30:02substantial meaning, then also to state it honestly, certainly also
00:30:06to draw attention in the world, well,
00:30:09Estonia has carried this so-called pioneering
00:30:12and image in the digital field, so he will definitely also with this
00:30:16projects and artificial intelligence projects
00:30:17certainly,
00:30:27the election started relatively roughly, but in the end Ülle Madise was elected with 70
00:30:30one.
00:30:33also in the first round of the Riigikogu, does this mean that now
00:30:36the discussions about the presidential election process, even
00:30:39about direct elections,
00:30:44the fact that the president was elected on the first attempt means that
00:30:47talks about direct presidential elections are a process, not the
00:30:50result, so I, as Prime Minister, can say that
00:30:53I have also talked to my predecessors, who have said that this is definitely a very rough
00:30:56road, but nevertheless we reached it.