By Months: Ester Karuse
Total Months: 13
Fully Profiled: 13
10.2025
4 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharp, critical, and emotionally charged, highlighting the injustice of educational inequality and the doors closed to children. The speaker utilizes both personal connections (their hometown, Valga) and specific examples, quotes, and statistics to bolster their argument. Powerful rhetorical questions are employed to underscore regional disparity, culminating in a direct and urgent political appeal to the voters of Valga.
09.2025
11 Speeches
The tone is serious, concerned, and urgent, emphasizing the moral and practical dimension of the problems, especially the difficulties faced by Southeastern Estonia and the elderly. It utilizes both emotional appeals (parents' lack of knowledge, unhealthy competition) and logical arguments (compulsory schooling, the danger of fraudulent calls). The style is formal (Riigikogu speeches) and centers on demanding solutions from the ministers.
06.2025
13 Speeches
The speaker's tone is predominantly critical, concerned, and frank, especially towards the government. They employ a strong emotional appeal, detailing people's difficulties coping, children's stress, and low self-esteem. They support their arguments using both personal experience (the court system) and specific regional examples (Valga exam results).
05.2025
8 Speeches
The speaker's tone is concerned and demanding, especially when presenting regional problems, emphasizing that this constitutes a significant moral blow to the residents of the area. Both logical arguments (specific closures, population figures) and emotional appeals (referencing the elderly and people with mobility difficulties) are utilized. The style in the interpellation and questions is direct, whereas the style of the committee rapporteur is neutral and procedural.
04.2025
6 Speeches
The speaking style is formal and procedural, particularly in committee reports, where substantive questions are directed to the Minister, emphasizing the speaker's role merely as a conveyor of the proceedings within the committee. When addressing domestic issues, a critical and emotional example (a disabled adolescent) is employed to illustrate the failure of state systems, thereby calling into question the realism of the government’s promises.
03.2025
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal and inquiry-based, employing a critical and concerned tone. The speaker relies on logical arguments and data, while simultaneously using an emotional comparison (five towns the size of Valga) to emphasize the scale of the problem.
02.2025
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is one of concern and urgency, employing an emotional appeal regarding cities being left without immediate services. The speaker uses irony (in the case of the Narva example) and directly poses a question to the presenter/commission, emphasizing the need for national requirements.
01.2025
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal and persuasive, characteristic of the Riigikogu context, employing both logical arguments and emotional appeal. The tone is simultaneously critical of the Georgian government while expressing solidarity with the Georgian people, calling for unwavering support. An historical parallel is drawn with the restoration of Estonian independence to underscore the importance of international solidarity.
12.2024
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal and respectful, addressing the minister ("Honored Minister"), yet simultaneously critical and concerned. The appeal itself is logical and procedural, focusing on the government’s documented failures to adhere to sound legislative practice. The speaker stresses the dangers inherent in rushing the legislative process, which inevitably leads to a decline in quality.
10.2024
2 Speeches
The style is formal and serious, employing strong emotional appeals, particularly regarding historical suffering and genocide, emphasizing shared historical memory ("Our ancestors experienced pain"). The address is predominantly value-based, stressing justice, freedom, and human dignity. The second address is direct and interrogative, aimed at the minister.
06.2024
5 Speeches
The speaker's style is formal and concerned, particularly regarding economic developments and the situation in Georgia, where anxiety is expressed. Logical appeals are used and facts are referenced (e.g., repressions in Russia, withdrawal from agreements in Georgia), addressing respected colleagues and ministers. The tone is demanding, especially when questioning the government about its plans.
02.2024
2 Speeches
The speech is formal and serious, employing both logical arguments (such as the economic damage caused by closing consulates) and emotional appeals (the horrors of war, innocent civilians in Gaza). The tone is cautionary regarding security matters and sharply critical of the government's foreign trade policy, stressing the necessity of consistency and resolve.
01.2024
1 Speeches
The style is highly formal, neutral, and procedural, focusing on the precise reporting of the Foreign Affairs Committee's decisions and the procedural steps taken. The speech is logical and explanatory, avoiding emotional or personal appeals. The tone is factual and respectful ("Thank you, esteemed Deputy Speaker of the Riigikogu! Esteemed colleagues!").