By Plenary Sessions: Martin Helme
Total Sessions: 7
Fully Profiled: 7
2025-05-21
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
The rhetorical style is highly combative, sarcastic, and designed to humiliate opponents, labeling them "simpletons" and dismissing their knowledge as either "Chinese" (incomprehensible) or "rocket science." Strong emotional appeals are employed, stressing that the government has made people poorer, and drawing upon personal experiences and historical examples of their own faction's achievements. The speaker utilizes irony, referencing the Reform Party's "tax-free Friday" and admitting that VAT is "emotionally one of the most repulsive taxes" he deals with.
2025-05-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, information briefing.
The rhetorical style is extremely aggressive, accusatory, and ironic, employing emotional appeals and hyperbole (e.g., "a millimeter away from the outbreak of hostilities"). The speaker issues direct and repeated demands for accountability ("Who is responsible?"), using sarcasm when describing Estonia's actions ("Great Power Estonia, Empire Estonia"). The tone is ultimative, concluding with a demand for the prime minister's resignation.
2025-05-19
15th Riigikogu, Fifth Session, Plenary Session.
The rhetoric is highly combative, emotional, and urgent, employing strong accusations and personal attacks (e.g., the reference to a minister who "perhaps even understands"). It appeals to fear and a national sense of danger, linking immigration to rising crime, housing shortages, and the collapse of social systems. Sharp and sometimes improper language is used ("degenerate element," "Satanists").
2025-05-14
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is highly combative, sharp, and emotional, employing strong accusations directed at the coalition, calling their actions demagogic and embarrassing drivel. The speaker uses repeated emotional appeals and warns of the danger of totalitarianism, contrasting themselves with "climate alarmists" and "charlatans." The recurring phrase "Putin! Putin! Putin!" is used to describe the tactic of suppressing criticism.
2025-05-12
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting.
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, aggressive, and emotional, utilizing strong and colloquial language ("damn," "bullshit," "trans stuff/agenda"). Direct personal attacks are used (e.g., "you are simply a liar") along with accusations of hypocrisy. The speaker employs sarcasm (e.g., the desire to change names to get e-votes against Jürgen Ligi) and contrasts "normality" with "extremist ideology."
2025-05-07
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, aggressive, and polemical, employing strong accusations of lying, stupidity, and cynical behavior. The speaker uses irony and references to the theatre of the absurd to describe the government’s actions, maintaining a tone that is consistently sharp and emotionally charged. He frequently employs hyperbole, for instance, comparing the political situation to Orwell and accusing liberals of the brutal dismantling of the rule of law.
2025-05-07
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, information briefing
The tone is extremely aggressive, passionate, and dramatic, utilizing powerful emotional appeals and rhetorical questions ("Have you gone mad?", "Do you want our destruction?"). The government is directly accused of destroying Estonia and gambling with the survival of the nation, labeling their conduct as "contemptible" and "absurd." Simple, yet intense language is employed to underscore the existential threat.