By Plenary Sessions: Lauri Laats

Total Sessions: 11

Fully Profiled: 11

2025-04-24
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The tone is formal and analytical—it asks questions, introduces elements of criticism, and uses international examples to support the argument. The greeting and the speaker's respectful opening point toward the official rhetoric surrounding the specific issue at hand. The emphasis lies on presenting questions and arguments, rather than applying emotional pressure.
2025-04-23
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The tone is critical and persuasive: it employs emotional arguments supported by fact-based examples, using rhetorical questions and forceful exclamations to project a powerful image. The texts often contain a touch of drama, while simultaneously remaining concrete and analytical. The style is formal, yet sharp and direct, characteristic of the event.
2025-04-23
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, press briefing
The speech is formal and fact-based, utilizing specific examples and pointed questions aimed at the government. Rather than emotion or sympathy, the preferred approach is an analytical and well-reasoned argument, delivered in a tone that stresses cooperation.
2025-04-21
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The focus is analytical and deliberative in nature, and it often uses examples and references (OSCE, media coverage) to increase its impact. The texts feature a mix of emotional resonance, fact-based argumentation, and the defense of democratic values; the style is formal, but also seeks to highlight important ethical principles (confidentiality, transparency).
2025-04-17
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
Rhetoric is voluntarily comprehensive, often combative, and overwhelmingly intimidating; it uses questions, tonal shifts delivered with a strong personal voice, and examples that support intellectual engagement. The text emphasizes internal structure: the presentation of facts and figures is blended with an emotional descriptive style; there is the recurring keyword "question of priorities," and critical references to opposing subjectivities.
2025-04-16
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
He/She structures their arguments based on analytical and robust data, utilizing questions and references to ENMAK numbers. The speech generates conclusions delivered with a critical but impersonal tone; factual and rhetorical assertions are blended, and a direct answer is missing for some questions. Different scenarios and examples are compared to highlight uncertainties and the necessity for clarity.
2025-04-16
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, press briefing
The tone is direct and somewhat abrupt, often utilizing questions to deliver criticism and compel responses. The text relies heavily on facts and figures, but the style remains formally critical, emphasizing problems and risks.
2025-04-14
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
Obligatorily critical and polemical, often employing rhetorical questions, accusations, and an emotional tone; it uses strong claims and figures and draws attention to issues of trust and legitimacy; sometimes inviting and seeking cooperation, but primarily acting in contrast to the government.
2025-04-09
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is aggressive and sharp, relying heavily on fact- and example-based argumentation, and includes direct addresses to the presiding officer. The texts feature questions, critical remarks, and an emotional tone, coupled with concrete proposals for amendments; the discussion of social and economic issues is closely tied to political struggle.
2025-04-08
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The tone is emphatically argumentative and formal, with the discourse style primarily grounded in facts and examples. It utilizes questions and the search for answers (e.g., "Is it possible for us to...?") and stresses the practical implications for the economy. Emotionally moderate, yet firmly critical, and prepared to differentiate between ideas and their economic impact.
2025-04-07
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The tone is polite, inquiring, and data-driven; it uses questions and hypothetical scenarios to provoke discussion and scrutiny, rather than to demonstrate aggression. The text is formal, analytical, and systematic, and seeks to balance emotional narrative with facts, while offering constructive criticism.