By Plenary Sessions: Mart Helme
Total Sessions: 7
Fully Profiled: 7
2025-04-24
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker's style is highly aggressive, alarmist, and confrontational, employing extreme language such as "brain-dead people" and "waste genocide." There is a powerful appeal to emotions (fear of corruption and health hazards), yet simultaneously, the speaker demands substantive and fact-based answers regarding waste management. The overall tone is accusatory and informal.
2025-04-23
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The style of rhetoric is extremely combative, emotional, and provocative, employing strong negative labels such as "Stalinist stench" and "network of informers." Appeals are made to personal memories of the Soviet era and historical parallels, prioritizing these over logical argumentation. Direct personal attacks (Kaja Kallas) and rhetorical questions are utilized to cast doubt on the opponents' competence.
2025-04-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker’s style is direct, insistent, and occasionally confrontational, demanding swift and clear action ("there is no point in beating around the bush for too long"). They employ both statistical appeal (42% distrust) and a provocative literary comparison ("The Good Soldier Švejk") to criticize half-baked solutions, labeling them a "half-assed solution."
2025-04-16
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker's style is very combative, accusatory, and pessimistic, using strong emotional metaphors such as "brainwashing machine" and "flock of sheep." The appeal is based on historical analogy (the EU vote) and the accusation that the populace is easily manipulated, emphasizing that the people share co-responsibility. Formally, the tone is typical of a Riigikogu (Parliamentary) debate, but its content is sharp and confrontational.
2025-04-09
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker's style is at times dramatic and emotional, utilizing metaphors (e.g., "this talk about the death sentence electrified me"). There are urgent calls for action and for exerting pressure on political opponents. However, economic topics are handled speculatively and theoretically, focusing more on systemic pessimism rather than concrete data.
2025-04-08
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, emotional, and contemptuous, employing strong pejorative labels such as "nonsense," "absurdity," "idiocy," and "mumbo-jumbo." The appeals are ideological, relying on historical comparisons to the Soviet Union rather than data. The tone is aggressive and dialogue-precluding, displaying sarcasm (e.g., the suggestion regarding putting Siim Kallas's and Mart Võrklaev's pictures on dollars).
2025-04-07
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The speaker's style is extremely combative, critical, and urgent, employing dramatic and emotional appeals. He draws upon personal experiences (a trip to China, serving as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official) and levels wide-ranging accusations of government incompetence and political interference by the special services. The speech features repeated exclamations and emphasis ("Extremely typical!", "We are not this!"), along with irony (e.g., regarding the Security Police's [Kapo's] little exhibition).