By Plenary Sessions: Mart Helme

Total Sessions: 8

Fully Profiled: 8

2025-02-27
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The style is extremely combative, aggressive, and emotional, employing harsh accusations such as "mafioso gang" and "thief parties." The speaker utilizes personal attacks (Yoko Alender's incompetence) and direct threats ("you will be destroyed," facing prosecution). Instead of logical arguments, emotional appeals and accusations of corruption dominate, emphasizing the suffering of the populace due to the high cost of electricity.
2025-02-26
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The style of the speech is highly combative, emotional, and urgent, blending personal experiences (suffering losses as a farmer) with sharp political criticism. The speaker employs real-life examples and levels strong accusations against the coalition ("political jealousy," "being out of touch with reality"). The speaker uses metaphors and proverbs ("as the cook, so the rock") and poses rhetorical questions to emphasize the seriousness and absurdity of the situation.
2025-02-26
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, press briefing
The speaker’s style is highly combative, accusatory, and emotional, employing sharp phrases like "arrogant attack," "crime," and "the Reform Party regime." The speech utilizes both logical arguments (standards for weapon systems, the actual cost of wind farms) and personal attacks (the PM's behavior on Republic Day). The tone is urgent, demanding political accountability and resignation.
2025-02-25
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The speaking style is extremely combative, emotional, and urgent, utilizing strong, disparaging metaphors ("a total mess," "Pandora's box") and personal appeals ("Dear friends"). The appeal is primarily emotional and value-based, criticizing the legal arbitrariness that stems from the annotated editions of the constitution, and concluding with a direct call to conscience.
2025-02-19
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary sitting
The speaker's style is sharp, critical, and forceful, utilizing vivid anecdotes and metaphors (e.g., "the little bog," "ducks facing a hunter's rifle"). He leans heavily on personal and historical experience (ambassador, commission member) and accuses his opponents of "childish talk" and "liberal ideological purism." The overall tone demands concrete action, not just words ("less noise, longer stride").
2025-02-19
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th sitting, information briefing
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, accusatory, and tense, utilizing strong emotional appeals (e.g., the security threat, the fear of losing Ida-Virumaa) and polarizing terms such as "fifth column" and "cancelling." The speaker employs sharp personal attacks against the prime minister, labeling his insults as insipid and vile, and demands an apology regarding the accusation concerning the May 9th celebration. The argumentation is based on a deductive security assessment and references to foreign policy statements (Putin, Slutski).
2025-02-12
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The style of rhetoric is extremely combative, aggressive, and confrontational, employing strong personal accusations (e.g., calling the Prime Minister "unfit" and "incompetent"). It utilizes emotional appeals and hyperbole (the people "literally hate you") along with direct accusations of lying and obfuscation. The tone is urgent, demanding resignation before criminal liability is established, and relies more on political attack than on detailed data analysis.
2025-02-12
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, information briefing
The speaker's rhetorical style is extremely combative and emotional, expressing "deep indignation and protest." Repeated accusations are used ("falsehood," "distortions," "wrong decisions"), and the appeal is made to moral judgments, rather than to data or detailed policy analysis.