By Plenary Sessions: Mart Helme
Total Sessions: 6
Fully Profiled: 6
2025-05-21
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and emotional, employing strongly derogatory language to characterize opponents (e.g., "broilers and otherwise brain-dead people," "a sign of ideological brain death"). The speaker demands impartiality and adherence to the rules from the presiding officer, noting that the coalition constantly levels false accusations and disparages those who hold different views.
2025-05-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, information briefing.
The speaker's style is highly combative, accusatory, and emotionally charged, utilizing irony and demeaning expressions ("fairytales," "little bubbles," "shamed themselves"). A logical appeal to international maritime law is stressed, but this is mixed with personal attacks and the moral condemnation of the government's actions. Rhetorical questions are repeatedly employed to call the government's objectives into question.
2025-05-19
15th Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
The rhetorical style is extremely aggressive, emotional, and demagogic, employing strong personal accusations and degrading language (e.g., "demagogic nonsense," "irresponsible idiots"). The speaker accuses opponents of arrogant behavior and failing to answer questions. The appeals are aimed at highlighting government corruption and incompetence, rather than focusing on logical data analysis.
2025-05-14
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session
The speaker employs an extremely combative, emotional, and accusatory style, frequently resorting to personal attacks and demonizing language (e.g., "Reform Party arrogance," "odious type," "propagandists"). Historical parallels (such as the perestroika of the Soviet Union) and global predictions (like the election of Donald Trump) are utilized to herald the imminent collapse of the regime. The tone is apocalyptic, conveying a firm conviction that the opposition's power is merely temporary.
2025-05-07
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The style is highly combative, sharp, and aggressive, employing strongly negative terminology to describe the opponents' actions, such as "stupid talk," "total madness," and "a massive racket." Emotional appeals are utilized, warning of social chaos and citing examples of childhood power outages experienced in Pärnu. Opponents are compared to deputies of the Supreme Soviet of Soviet Estonia and "idiotic people."
2025-05-07
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, information briefing
The tone is extremely combative, accusatory, and urgent, emphasizing the danger of the collapse of the world order. Strong emotional metaphors are used (e.g., bureaucracy as "cancer," ideas as "sick ideas"), and the government is accused of talking "drivel" and of incompetence (making decisions "based on coffee grounds"). The speaker poses logical questions regarding operational security (e.g., the "guarantor state"), but frames them within the narrative of government failure.