By Months: Lauri Laats
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
39 Speeches
The rhetorical style is urgent, confrontational, and strongly critical, especially towards the Finance Minister, whose behavior is described as "embarrassing and sad." Both logical arguments (economic data, international examples) and emotional and populist appeals are used, emphasizing that "the people sustain the state." The speaker is direct and is not afraid of the minister's reprimand regarding the political message displayed on their shirt.
09.2025
160 Speeches
The rhetoric is confrontational and largely emotional, frequently employing an accusatory and critical tone directed at the government and its ministers. The text features a strong emphasis on analytical and oversight power; the preservation of a respectful, official format is blended with forceful conviction. The speaker balances emotion and facts, often posing questions and challenges to compel specific answers and necessary changes.
06.2025
83 Speeches
An emphatically emotional and critical tone, often posed as questions, speaking forcefully and sometimes using examples stated with manic intensity. It employs strong value-based claims (such as people's purchasing power, the rule of law, and demography) and occasionally delivers overtly proclaimed, solid messages. Crucially, it is simultaneously fact-based and properly referenced with data. The communication typically takes the form of a speech intended to stir up emotions while also presenting concrete demands and alternatives.
05.2025
82 Speeches
Highly critical and expressive of empathy, often employing rhetorical questions and direct, pointed address on behalf of "the people"; emotional, yet competent and factually supported within the context of parliamentary procedures and inquiries (Riigikogu proceedings). The underlying purpose of the text is to raise awareness of reality and emphasize alternatives.
04.2025
90 Speeches
A morally critical and emotionally charged speaker: often uses questions and rhetorical devices; combines fact-based explanations and conceptual references with strong political argumentation; is structurally long and thorough, and tends to repeat important points.
03.2025
17 Speeches
The focus is on a confrontational and agitated tone, often utilizing a recurring triad (crisis of democracy, crisis of governance, demographic crisis), alongside direct questions and emotional standpoints. The text — and especially the discussion of showcase bills — is repeatedly characterized by criticism and rhetorical outbursts, which offer snap elections and changes as an alternative. Speakers combine emotional drivers with verified references to facts.
02.2025
67 Speeches
The approach is serious, yet it strategically uses humor and engaging rhetoric (like the egg example) as devices, alongside direct questions posed to the audience and colleagues. This strikes a balance between emotional and logical argumentation. The style is often sharp and critical, but simultaneously detailed and data-centric. A diverse format is employed: discussions, inquiries, slogans, and examples drawn from everyday life.
01.2025
66 Speeches
The core content is usually combative and targeted, often employing rhetorical devices (pointed examples, exclamations, questions), and maintains an emotional and provocative tone. In these texts, the presentation of facts and figures is frequently mixed with contradictory claims; viewpoints are defended forcefully, and there are often calls for collective cooperation, but the criticism remains heavily focused on the government.
12.2024
105 Speeches
A stern, emotionally charged tone that directly addresses controversial topics, combining the numerology of facts, confrontation, and coldly constructed arguments. It often employs striking examples, country comparisons, and direct questions to maximize impact; characterized by the use of formal and extensively structured speech and questioning, alongside demonstrations staged using fundamental knowledge.
11.2024
114 Speeches
The style is rich in emotional and critical elements: combative, direct, often posing pointed questions to the minister, and using concrete examples to challenge the speech's claims. The text utilizes large volumes of data and examples, yet simultaneously makes space for powerful rhetoric, alternating between tones of logic and empathy. A clear effort is noticeable to cultivate a diligent and nationally cohesive atmosphere, especially during challenging times.
10.2024
72 Speeches
A critical and forceful style, often challenging and emotional; it employs strong judgments (e.g., "blunder," "omnibus bill," and "the government's work style"); it poses questions, provokes discussion, and highlights the lack of transparency. The discourse frequently features provocative or substantive questions and a suggestive tone, but it also contains detailed, fact-based argumentation.
09.2024
45 Speeches
The speaking style is typically boldly critical and demanding, often employing questions and strong emotional appeals to underscore the gravity of the issue. The texts possess both substantive content and a zealous, striving tone; sometimes the tone becomes notably combative, and frequent, sometimes strained, comparisons and examples take center stage. Long paragraphs are utilized, along with repeated affirmations of “Thank you!”, and narrative devices that frame the discussion as “look what is happening” and “why can’t we do this.”
07.2024
4 Speeches
The emphasis is critical and simultaneously fact-based; it includes various emotional touches (tragicomical), multifaceted argumentation, and the use of personal examples. The structure of the text features repetitions and specific observations regarding the presidential veto and the budget's impact.
06.2024
45 Speeches
Uses parliamentary language combining a conciliatory and critical tone: explicitly stating, "That is wrong!" and repeatedly posing questions in a demanding and unapologetic style; the request for recesses and more thorough discussion is repeated. Flexible, yet simultaneously resolute and substantive, largely formalistic and fact-focused; emphasis is placed on cooperation and broader inclusion.
05.2024
46 Speeches
Adjacent, ready to serve as an imminent dispute agent, often sharply critical and highly emotional, yet simultaneously disciplined and data-transcendent. It employs direct address questions, examples, and lengthy argumentative essays; occasionally utilizing humor or irony, often accompanied by a strong ethical and legal interpretation. Formal, but sometimes adopting a tone that is contextually precise, personal, and empathetic.
04.2024
18 Speeches
The tone is critical, challenging, and direct; it uses questions directed at the minister and fact-based examples to highlight deficiencies; it is sometimes satirical (using humor) and includes the emotional directive, "Thank you!"; it combines emotional and logical arguments; the tone is often oppositional, but geared toward flexibility and finding solutions.
03.2024
16 Speeches
Constructive, yet powerfully critical and evidence-based; it utilizes questions, statistics, and expert references to bolster its perspective; at times direct and empathetic, but simultaneously sharply political and uncompromising in its principled presentation of results.
02.2024
10 Speeches
Being critical and accusatory in its questioning, it utilizes fact-based evidence alongside tabloid-style examples concerning the economy and regional infrastructure. It combines emotional appeals (human suffering, ambulance delays) with logical arguments (data, figures), highlighting systematic problems. It emphasizes the necessity for quicker and clearer decisions and advocates for specific alternative solutions.
01.2024
6 Speeches
A highly courteous and formal tone is maintained; frequent use is made of respectful forms of address and inquiries. Topics are approached in a measured and fact-based manner, focusing specifically on the domain-specific nuances of the matters at hand. The delivery primarily emphasizes competence and control, eschewing the need for emotional or overtly aggressive engagement.