By Months: Hanah Lahe
Total Months: 13
Fully Profiled: 13
06.2025
4 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly formal, neutral, and procedural, focusing on the detailed reporting of the commission's work and procedural progress. It employs logical appeals and fact-based language, emphasizing dates and consensus decisions. The tone is respectful, often addressing the audience as "Esteemed Chair" and "Dear Colleagues."
05.2025
25 Speeches
The speaker employs a style that is largely confrontational and passionate, particularly during climate debates, where they sharply criticize opponents' viewpoints, labeling them "lies" and "ideological madness." This is balanced by emotional appeals (concern for the planet and victims) alongside logical and data-driven arguments (HKS revenue of 200 million euros annually). The speaker also incorporates personal notes, criticizing colleagues for interruptions and rude conduct within the chamber.
04.2025
3 Speeches
The style is formal and analytical, employing polite forms of address ("Honorable Chair," "Esteemed Presenter"). The speaker poses pointed, data-driven questions to highlight political priorities and demands objective comparative data for the assessment of technical aspects. The tone is rather interrogative and challenging.
03.2025
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal and interrogative, utilizing powerful rhetorical questions to challenge the opponent's viewpoints. The tone is critical and challenging, relying on logical arguments and the presentation of specific geographical examples to underscore the genuine threat posed by climate change.
12.2024
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly formal, neutral, and procedural, focusing on the enumeration of commission decisions and amendments. Logical appeals and technical language are employed (normative-technical, amendments), while emotional or personal viewpoints are strictly avoided.
11.2024
5 Speeches
The rhetorical style is passionate, insistent, and at times sharply confrontational, especially directed at climate change deniers, who are referred to as "stupid" and whose actions are deemed "embarrassing." The speaker balances emotional appeals (climate anxiety, existential threat) with detailed logical arguments concerning the structure of the law and economic benefit. The overall tone is formal yet purposeful, emphasizing progressiveness.
10.2024
2 Speeches
The discourse style is formal and procedural, particularly regarding the committee report, where logical arguments and the presentation of data (fiscal calculations) predominate. The tone is analytical and critical, highlighting the insufficient justification of the draft bill and the absence of exhaustive responses from the initiator. The second speech is brief and directly critical of the procedure.
09.2024
6 Speeches
The style is predominantly formal and procedural, particularly in commission reports, but shifts to urgent and value-based when discussing the climate crisis. Strong analogies are employed (the climate crisis as a security situation), and shared responsibility is emphasized. There is one brief, slightly ironic or sarcastic response to a perceived reprimand.
05.2024
6 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and persuasive, drawing heavily on facts, statistics, and international examples. The tone is optimistic and progressive, particularly when addressing issues concerning young people. Regarding climate policy, the emphasis is placed on practical impact. Rhetorical questions are employed to dismantle opponents' arguments (for instance, concerning the definition of maturity or an established worldview).
04.2024
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, respectful, and substantive, directed toward the esteemed Chair of the session and colleagues. The address is primarily logical and procedural, focusing on the introduction of the draft law and justifying the proposed change by citing the necessity of democracy and youth engagement.
03.2024
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, serious, and insistent, emphasizing the global and local scope of the water crisis. Strong logical argumentation is employed, relying on extensive data and international analyses. The speech concludes with an emotional appeal to value Estonia's water resources, calling it a whole ocean for Estonians.
02.2024
3 Speeches
The style is predominantly formal and factual, especially in legislative reports, where neutral and procedural language is employed. When engaging with the opposition, the tone shifts to direct and confrontational, utilizing arguments regarding previous legal defeats and the potential for new litigation. When posing questions to ministers, the tone is analytical and emphasizes policy.
01.2024
13 Speeches
The style is formal, logical, and procedural, focusing on the communication of the committee's work and the voting results. In the debate, the tone is assertive and critical, accusing opponents of lacking sources and copying text from low-quality portals. It strongly appeals to logic and science, not emotions.