By Plenary Sessions: Helle-Moonika Helme
Total Sessions: 6
Fully Profiled: 6
2025-04-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is forceful, critical, and confrontational, employing highly charged emotional phrases such as "security threat," "deceit and lies," and "a rotten state of affairs." The speaker uses rhetorical questions and references the existence of a deep state to underscore the magnitude of the systemic crisis. The tone is formal, but the content is extremely suspicious and accusatory.
2025-04-17
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is highly combative, critical, and accusatory, employing strong emotional expressions (e.g., "arrogant and cynical governance"). Colloquial language is used ("the well-fed do not understand the hungry"), along with rhetorical questions, to emphasize the divide between the ruling elite and ordinary people. The appeals are primarily emotional and value-based, contrasting the selfishness of the elite with the suffering of the populace.
2025-04-16
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is combative, critical, and skeptical, employing emotionally charged and derogatory expressions such as "green hysteria," "green racket," and "pure nonsense." Hypothetical scenarios (like the EU finally coming to its senses) and rhetorical questions are used to test the ideological dependence and consistency of opponents.
2025-04-16
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, press briefing
The tone is extremely combative, accusatory, and emotional, using strong and degrading epithets directed at the government ("incompetent, arrogant, and cynical bunglers"). The speaker repeatedly uses rhetorical questions ("Seriously?") and intense expressions ("a blatant crime against humanity," "trampling on the experiences of loved ones"), strongly appealing to emotions and demanding accountability. The style is more emotional and accusatory than logical or data-driven.
2025-04-15
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
The rhetorical style is demanding and confrontational, especially concerning issues of social injustice, employing emotional appeals (for example, the helplessness of the elderly and the legal system turning its back). Regarding transport issues, the style is critical and suspicious, casting doubt on the motives of coalition politicians and asking whose interests they are actually serving. The speaker asks direct questions and refuses to comply with the minister's wish to avoid certain topics.
2025-04-14
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The style of the speech is extremely combative, critical, and accusatory, often employing sharp and emotional phrases ("green madness," "corrupt plan," "liberal terror," "monkey business"). The speaker uses numerous rhetorical questions and vivid metaphors (Pippi's spunk, a hundred cane strokes, ivory tower, potholes) to underscore the government's arrogance and dishonesty. There is a refusal to address the Prime Minister using his formal title, emphasizing his lack of legitimacy.