By Plenary Sessions: Ants Frosch
Total Sessions: 50
Fully Profiled: 50
2025-09-25
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is urgent and critical, diagnosing a deep problem (stagnation) and demanding radical change. It employs emotional and philosophical appeals, such as "a new time of awakening" and the liberation of the "free spirit." The address is structured as questions directed at the presenter, emphasizing the necessity of action.
2025-09-10
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
The style is formal, repetitive, and pressuring, focusing on obtaining a concrete answer regarding the issue of political accountability. The speaker repeats their question multiple times to emphasize the importance of the topic and prevent the evasion of a direct response. Logical argumentation is employed, linking the minister’s background in medical ethics to the theme of political responsibility.
2025-09-04
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu
The rhetorical style is resolute and confrontational, employing strong metaphors (e.g., "carrying water with a sieve," or "salami slicing tactics"). The tone is formal, yet it contains irony and sharp accusations levelled at the board regarding procedural unfairness, ironically asking who the "god in heaven" is that evaluates the obstruction.
2025-06-18
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal, respectful, and focuses on logical argumentation, commencing with the address: "Dear Chairman! Esteemed Presenter!" The speaker uses a specific international case (the Romanian border areas) to support their question, thereby emphasizing a data-driven and serious approach to security issues.
2025-06-17
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is analytical and cautious, focusing on logical arguments and procedural risks (lack of control). The tone is formal, and questions are posed respectfully ("Dear presenter!"), but the substance is critical and concerned. Technical language is used, and reference is made to established principles (e.g., compartmentalization).
2025-06-16
XV Riigikogu, V Session, Plenary Sitting
The rhetorical style is critical and questioning, while simultaneously employing a formal address ("Dear Minister"). A cultural reference (Tallinnfilm's "Ideal Landscape") and an ironic analogy ("garbage commissioners") are utilized to underscore the impracticality of the proposal. The discourse is logical, focusing on the lack of resources and proper analysis.
2025-06-09
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal, factual, and pressing, pivoting the discussion from the inviolability of private life to an urgent security threat. The speaker employs logical argumentation, substantiating their points with identified cases in EU member states, and concludes with a direct and specific operational question addressed to the Prime Minister.
2025-05-06
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal, courteous, and interrogative, addressing the minister directly. A logical and pertinent approach is employed, seeking specific information regarding the progress of the political initiative.
2025-04-16
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, press briefing
The rhetorical style is sharp, critical, and demanding, posing direct questions to the Prime Minister. The speaker relies on logical arguments and facts (the composition of the commission, the competition criteria), highlighting the contradiction between the criteria and the competence of the chosen individual. The tone is one of concern, referencing the seriousness of the security situation.
2025-03-26
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The style is formal, procedural, and detailed, especially when presenting the summary of the committee's work, but becomes more persuasive and nationally focused when answering questions. It uses an insistent tone, emphasizing responsibility ("we must get our job done") and highlighting the open "window of opportunity" for decision-making. It appeals both to logic (compromise, legal interpretation) and to emotions (Estonian matters are pursued through joint effort, national backbone).
2025-02-25
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and cautionary, emphasizing the complexity of the international situation and the necessity of avoiding "gray areas." The speaker relies on logical and legal arguments, linking historical decisions (the Constituent Assembly) with contemporary threats. The tone is assured and resolute, concluding with an emphasis on firm conviction.
2025-02-13
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary meeting
The rhetorical style is sharp, critical, and at times confrontational, particularly when addressing the governing coalition and the Social Democrats. The speaker employs strong emotional language (e.g., "I am embarrassed," "very disturbed") and accuses their opponents of putting words in their mouth. They emphasize the importance of their stance and the necessity of tackling these issues, even using popular expressions (e.g., "The dog yelps that the stone hit").
2025-02-12
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal and directly interrogative, addressed to the Prime Minister. An impactful historical quote ("Personnel decide everything") is employed to underscore the speaker's position and highlight the gravity of the situation. The tone is critical and suspicious, focusing on logical argumentation that suggests political manipulation—a "personnel game"—involving state officials.
2025-02-11
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The style is formal, logical, and scrutinizing, focusing on facts and the credibility of sources. The speaker uses specific references to support their arguments, such as the article title and date, while posing a sharp question to the minister regarding trustworthiness. The tone is challenging and demands accountability.
2025-01-28
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The style of the address is formal and inquiry-driven, directed straight to the Director and the Minister. The emphasis is placed on a logical and procedural solution (offering a specific inspection frequency), with the aim of ensuring order and clarity.
2025-01-22
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session.
The rhetorical style is critical and pointed, employing words like "bizarre," "comical," and "failed" to describe the government's actions. The speaker supports their claims with verified facts (such as discrepancies in calculations), thereby creating a logical foundation for demanding the tax's repeal.
2025-01-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session
The style is critical and direct, employing strong accusatory terms such as "nepotism" and "favoritism." The speaker relies on a logical structure, listing specific examples of high-profile departures to support their accusation and concluding with a question demanding accountability.
2025-01-20
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker's rhetorical style is highly respectful and flattering, praising the minister's empathy and giving her high marks ("the title of the most empathetic minister"). An emotional appeal is employed, connecting the minister's personal status (a mother of a large family) with the political message and the necessity of a slogan.
2024-12-09
15th Riigikogu, 4th sitting, plenary sitting
The style is formal and inquiry-based, directed at the minister to gain clarity. The tone is critical and concerned, particularly regarding the decline in the standard of foreign policy and environmental hazards. The appeals are primarily logical and fact-based, emphasizing known dangers (e.g., radium content and carcinogenic material).
2024-11-20
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The style is highly formal, always using the salutations "Dear Chairman!" and "Esteemed Presenter!". The speaker is analytical, focusing on clarifying legal constructs and principles (e.g., legitimate expectation, reciprocity). They primarily pose questions aimed at clarifying details and legal grounds, adopting an inquisitive rather than an emotional tone.
2024-11-11
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is positive and emotional, repeatedly emphasizing themes of joy and happiness ("joyful holidays," "blessed time"). The speaker employs value-based argumentation, linking the addition of a day off to family and child-focused well-being. The address is formal (referencing the chairman and the presenter/rapporteur) and is structured in the form of a question.
2024-10-21
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is critical, analytical, and demanding, focusing on institutional and procedural errors. Logical arguments and references to specific historical and legal cases are used to emphasize the incompetence and lack of control in the government's actions. The tone is formal but includes sharp assessments (e.g., "ülimalt käpardlikult," "mindi kahuriga varblast laskma").
2024-10-07
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is critical, demanding, and urgent, highlighting the lack of ambition and historical failures. Rhetorical questions are employed ("When will you do this?", "When is it possible...") to demand specific answers and timetables from the minister. The style relies on logical arguments and regional comparisons.
2024-09-23
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th session, plenary session
The style is confident, corrective, and critical, posing direct questions and immediately correcting any inaccuracies or falsehoods emanating from the podium. The criticism is sharp, employing a historical and literary analogy to evaluate the Foreign Minister's motives, which lends intellectual depth to the rhetoric.
2024-09-19
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is corrective, fact-based, and resolute, focusing on rectifying a specific inaccuracy. The speaker employs formal language ("statement and remark") and relies on written materials to substantiate their claim, steering clear of emotional appeals.
2024-09-16
The 15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting.
The rhetorical style is formal and direct, focusing on specific facts and observations that culminate in a pointed question for the minister. The speaker employs logical argumentation to challenge the universality of the ministry's activities, concluding with the delivery of a politically charged implication.
2024-07-22
15th Riigikogu, Riigikogu's extraordinary session.
The style is analytical, formal, and critical, employing rhetorical questions and references to expert opinions. The tone is skeptical regarding the depth of the coalition agreement, stressing that what is absent from the text is crucial. Figurative language is also employed, asking whether the Secretary of State will, figuratively speaking, be hauled over the coals.
2024-05-13
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal and question-driven, addressing the minister directly. The tone is professional and concerned, focusing on logical and procedural details while strictly avoiding emotional expressions. The speaker poses two specific questions and one comment, seeking a clear response regarding the investigation's timeframe.
2024-05-09
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is insistent, critical, and confrontational, using strong metaphors (e.g., "the e-tiger is essentially naked," "the balloon is pricked"). It employs both logical arguments (citing the OSCE report) and emotional warnings about the system's imminent collapse into a fiasco. The speaker uses quotes (Abraham Lincoln) and addresses the press directly, urging them to conduct interviews with international experts.
2024-05-08
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session.
The rhetorical style is impassioned, decisive, and militant, employing strong emotional appeals to underscore the significance of the bill and the irresponsibility of the government's actions. The speaker uses powerful phrases such as "criminal negligence" and concludes by paraphrasing the ancient Roman maxim ("Carthage must be destroyed") to stress their point.
2024-05-06
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session.
The rhetorical style is concerned and urgent, stressing the gravity of the situation and the negative consequences for children. Direct questions are employed ("What should these parents be doing?"), along with a metaphor ("to cook slightly richer soup in one corner of the soup pot") to differentiate between systemic and individual problems.
2024-05-02
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is insistent, critical, and concerned, expressing a personal "predicament" regarding the situation that has arisen. Both logical procedural arguments and strong value-based appeals are employed, emphasizing "humanity and peasant wisdom." The speaker uses memorable metaphors, such as the "steamroller," and refers to folk wisdom (a leg grows out of the grave) to emphasize the opposing side's unethical behavior.
2024-04-30
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Third Session, Plenary Session.
The rhetorical style is formal, but incorporates provocative and anecdotal elements, referencing the prime minister's alleged comment regarding the residents of Võru. To deliver the criticism, a hypothetical and emotional example ("angry pensioners") is employed to highlight the painful effect of the legislation.
2024-04-17
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting
The style is combative, critical, and dramatic, utilizing strong emotional appeals and anecdotes (the officer and the radio receiver) to criticize the quality of the debate. Storytelling (the Otepää incident) is employed to illustrate procedural and ethical shortcomings. The speech concludes with a provocative and Trumpian call for hackers to attack the system and cause it to collapse.
2024-04-17
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, information briefing
The rhetorical style is formal, logical, and deeply concerned, emphasizing the "extreme critical nature" of the situation and the impact of the US elections on European security. The speaker poses direct, politically significant questions, demanding clarification regarding failed initiatives and future plans. The tone is critical of the effectiveness of the government's performance.
2024-04-16
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal and interrogative, expressing strong astonishment and condemnation ("how could such a thing happen"). A value-based appeal is employed, contrasting national symbols with social issues to highlight the misplaced nature of the priorities.
2024-04-03
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd sitting, plenary session
The speaker’s style is forceful, critical, and uses strong language, demanding that "enough of this nonsense." He/She employs both logical arguments concerning procedural errors and emotional and literary appeals, referencing Kafka’s work "The Trial" to illustrate that the process itself constitutes the punishment. Furthermore, he/she utilizes historical anecdotes (such as the Interior Minister’s address, "You are plants") to underscore institutional incompetence.
2024-04-01
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is insistent, anxious, and alarmist, emphasizing the seriousness of security threats and the possibility of a terrorist act occurring in Estonia. Both logical arguments are employed (demanding specific figures and a moratorium) as well as phrases that create emotional tension ("a depressing response," "the question is when"). The style is formal, posing questions to the minister and the chairman.
2024-03-20
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, press briefing.
The rhetorical style is direct and critical, posing two clearly distinct yet sharp questions to the minister. The emotionally charged term "blood money" is used to convey ethical condemnation. The political questions, in contrast, are logical and focus on risk analysis, the timeframe, and international cooperation.
2024-03-18
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is formal and analytical, presenting a question to the minister based on legal principles. It employs both logical argumentation and intense emotional expressions (such as "the callous and brutal trampling of rights") to underscore the criticism.
2024-03-12
15th Riigikogu, 3rd plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is sharp, critical, and at times dramatic, utilizing both legal argumentation and figurative comparisons ("Game of Thrones," "blood money"). The speaker presents logical appeals, emphasizing the need to amend the law to ensure security, but also adds strong emotional accusations regarding the coalition's corrupt connections. The tone is formal, yet simultaneously insistent and accusatory, underscoring the decline of democracy.
2024-03-11
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is confrontational and critical, employing strong and judgmental phrases like "schizophrenic division" and "public transport is a delusion." The speaker poses direct questions and challenges to the Prime Minister, demanding answers regarding both the contradictions in foreign policy and the disregard for local reality.
2024-02-21
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, information briefing
The rhetorical style is serious, formal, and concerned, expressing skepticism regarding the adequacy of the studies, particularly concerning the responses provided by individuals originating from the Soviet and Russian cultural sphere. The arguments are presented logically, relying on legal principles and demanding concrete steps to improve the security situation.
2024-02-13
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is critical and deeply concerned, underscoring the fragility of transatlantic relations and the inadequacy of Estonian foreign policy. Strong language is employed (e.g., "emasculation," "paralyzed"), along with references to well-known mottos ("Never again alone," the NATO motto) to highlight the gravity of the situation. Although presented in the form of a question, the content constitutes a sharp political statement that appeals both to logic and to the public's sense of security.
2024-02-07
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary sitting.
The style is twofold: in the first address, the tone is critical and concerned, employing strong expressions (e.g., "things have gone completely off the rails"). In the second address, the tone is rather procedural and focused on details, where the speaker admits their inexperience and takes responsibility for the mistakes. They balance emotional appeals (the necessity of defending justice) with logical and technical procedural questions.
2024-01-24
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session
The speaking style is extremely formal, polite, and concise, utilizing standard forms of address ("Dear colleagues"). The emphasis is on a direct and logical appeal to support the draft legislation, with no emotional or narrative elements present.
2024-01-22
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting
The style is formal (when addressing the Minister and the Chairman), but it contains sharp and memorable imagery, such as accusing the Reform Party of the "mopedization" of Estonia (Eesti "punnvõrristamises"). Both logical questions (concerning involvement and tax categories) and vivid historical parallels regarding rural life are employed. The tone is critical and worried, particularly concerning traffic safety and the livelihood of rural residents.
2024-01-17
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session
The style is predominantly formal and analytical, posing direct and repeated questions to the minister concerning control measures. In the third speech, the speaker employs an anecdote and personal experience (Strasbourg, early 2000s) to establish a connection with the audience and comment on the procedural aspect of the Riigikogu sessions.
2024-01-16
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting
The style is formal and analytical, relying on international parallels and the operations of security agencies to substantiate the arguments. The speaker raises questions demanding clarification regarding the work of the Constitutional Committee, while simultaneously employing light irony when referencing the "fresh social democrats." The overall tone is serious and calls for heightened awareness.
2024-01-15
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session.
The rhetorical style is formal, yet sharp and critical, employing strong value judgments such as "ethical relativism" and "fateful decision." Both logical arguments (demographics, road safety) and emotional appeals (people dying on the highway) are used to emphasize the urgency of the issues. All presentations are framed as questions directed to the Prime Minister, demanding a specific position or recommendation.