By Plenary Sessions: Ants Frosch

Total Sessions: 5

Fully Profiled: 5

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.