By Plenary Sessions: Mart Helme

Total Sessions: 5

Fully Profiled: 5

2025-01-27
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is highly confrontational, emotional, and accusatory, beginning by justifying the right to protest and interrupt. Strong and derogatory expressions are used (e.g., "a kindergarten," "silly fools," "rubbish") alongside historical parallels to Communism and Lysenkoism to discredit the opposing side. The speech concludes with a cautionary rhetorical question, "When will you change your fur?", referencing events in America.
2025-01-22
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, information briefing
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and repetition-based, utilizing strong emotional language ("completely incompetent," "a gang of corrupt scoundrels"). The speaker introduces alternative narratives (the case of Romania) and draws upon personal political history (resigning from the post of Minister of the Interior) to highlight double standards. The tone is direct and confrontational, centered on discrediting the opponent's positions.
2025-01-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session
The speaking style is urgent, anxious, and at times apocalyptic, stressing existential threats ("we live in a completely new world"). Strong emotional appeals are used to halt political infighting, along with rhetorical questions designed to compel listeners to confront uncomfortable truths regarding the lack of future prospects for agriculture. The language is straightforward and utilizes figurative expressions, such as "to zero out."
2025-01-15
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, information briefing
The speaker adopts a confident, critical, and demanding style, underscoring their past foresight concerning security matters. Logical arguments are employed, and specific details are demanded (work plans, analyses, capacities), alongside references to previous "propagandistic slander." The tone is accusatory regarding the government's activities, faulting them for continuing to operate within their comfort zone.
2025-01-14
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The style of delivery is extremely combative, urgent, and emotional, utilizing strong, condemnatory language (e.g., "total secrecy mania," "secret enterprise"). The speaker employs numerous rhetorical questions, dramatic anecdotes (the beer bottle incident, the Georg Ots story), and hyperbole to underscore the perceived injustice and hypocrisy. The tone is highly critical of bureaucracy and the ruling elite.