By Months: Mart Maastik
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
13 Speeches
The rhetorical style is critical and confrontational, especially regarding the minister's answers and the government's policies. Logical appeals are utilized (such as the reality of the vehicle fleet aging) alongside emotional contrasts (20 euros versus 100 euros per child). The speaker poses pointed questions and demands the policy's outright cancellation, not just cosmetic changes.
09.2025
17 Speeches
The style is combative, urgent, and sharply critical, utilizing strong negative phrasing ("tax festival," "excessive spending," "catastrophic state"). The speaker focuses on logical arguments and facts (salary figures, forecasts) to expose the government's incompetence and hypocrisy. The tone is formal yet demanding, requiring specific answers from the ministers and the prime minister.
06.2025
28 Speeches
The speaker's rhetorical style is critical, sharp, and often combative, utilizing strong emotional expressions like "eco-frenzy" and accusing opponents of hypocrisy. He frequently employs rhetorical questions ("Aren't you ashamed?") and appeals to economic logic and common sense. He contrasts the government's "showcase projects" and "follies" with real cost cutting and a long-term perspective.
05.2025
35 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharply critical, incisive, and often emotionally charged, employing strong phrases such as "green madness," "the dark side of utopia," and "self-destruction program." It appeals to logic and economic reality, contrasting these with the government's ideological "charade" and "follies." It makes frequent use of rhetorical questions and addresses ministers directly to emphasize the irrationality of the policy.
04.2025
42 Speeches
The style is predominantly combative, critical, and forceful, highlighting the gravity of the situation and labeling the government's actions as "absurdity" or "insanity." It employs both logical arguments (such as cost comparison) and ironic appeals (for example, a reference to the Soviet planned economy and the classic anecdote about flying to the Sun). Opponents are accused of avoiding the issue and responding with the "same old talking points," further charging them with serving the interests of lobby groups.
03.2025
16 Speeches
The rhetorical style is critical, demanding, and at times combative, particularly when analyzing the government's activities. Logical arguments are employed, backed up by specific financial examples and analogies (e.g., buying a loaf of bread for 1 euro versus 5 euros) to highlight the irrationality of the government's decisions. The tone is one of concern and accusation regarding the lack of accountability, repeatedly insisting on concrete answers.
02.2025
25 Speeches
The speaker's style is predominantly combative and critical, accusing ministers of failing to answer questions and "fudging the issue" (or "evasiveness"), and the government of using "number magic." He relies heavily on logical arguments and mathematical comparisons to demonstrate the irrationality of the government's decisions. Figurative comparisons are also employed (the two loaves of bread, the Chinese sparrows analogy), and the formal tone is interspersed with sharp accusations.
01.2025
18 Speeches
The tone is predominantly critical, concerned, and occasionally sharp, especially regarding social and ideological topics, where strong expressions like "absurdity" and "pseudo-science" are employed. It poses rhetorical questions that cast doubt on the government's competence and motives (for example, concerning the Nordica decision: "intentional or sheer stupidity"). It tackles subjects in a formal yet passionate style, balancing logical and emotional appeals.
12.2024
35 Speeches
The tone is predominantly critical, sharp, and at times sarcastic, particularly concerning the government's activities, employing phrases such as "debt slavery" and "self-deception." It utilizes both emotional appeals (concern over children's safety, the destruction of nature) and logical argumentation, drawing upon figures and research. The session concludes with a satirical Christmas poem, revealing an ironic and entertaining facet.
11.2024
43 Speeches
The tone is predominantly critical, concerned, and at times ironic, utilizing figurative expressions (e.g., "political broilers," "laughter through tears," "it is better to fish in troubled waters"). It employs both logical arguments (economic consequences, data) and emotional appeals (the embarrassment of being a member of the Riigikogu). The style is direct and accusatory, especially regarding the government's illogical decisions and the bureaucratic "Brownian motion."
10.2024
23 Speeches
The style is critical and well-argued, employing negative terminology to describe the government's activities (such as "hyper-ministry"). The speaker uses personal examples (like life on Saaremaa, or an anecdote about their father) and rhetorical questions to underscore how policy affects ordinary people. Regarding legislative matters, the tone is explanatory and stresses the importance of restoring justice.
09.2024
8 Speeches
The rhetorical style is critical, direct, and at times ironic, criticizing the Riigikogu's activities as a "farce" and a waste of time. The speaker employs sharp metaphors, calling the government's tax law a "squirrel-ostrich-type law." The speaker stresses the necessity of statesmanship and attempts to balance logical arguments (cost analysis) with emotional appeals (the preservation of nature in Saaremaa).
07.2024
5 Speeches
The style is combative, critical, and occasionally ironic, employing direct questions and accusations aimed at the government. The speaker utilizes metaphors (such as "sheep state," "Brownian motion") and personal examples (life in the countryside, the mileage driven by their spouse) to underscore the negative impact of the tax policy. The tone is urgent, warning of an economic crisis and the dying out of the population.
06.2024
28 Speeches
The tone is predominantly combative, critical, and concerned, stressing that the government is forcing bills through "by brute force," despite opposition from the public and experts. It employs both logical arguments (figures, economic consequences) and emotional appeals (pensioners, children, rural residents), labeling the bills "stupid and pointless." It uses metaphors, such as Münchhausen syndrome and "a cat around hot porridge," to describe the government's actions.
05.2024
24 Speeches
The style is predominantly critical and combative, employing direct questions to cast doubt on opponents' motives (for example, the Social Democrats' flirtation with Russian voters). Logical arguments are used, relying on details and facts, but also emotional language, criticizing the government's actions as "hypocritical behavior" and "running around in a panic." Procedural criticism is also present (the respondent's failure to provide substantive answers, the bundling of draft legislation).
04.2024
30 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly combative and forceful, employing strong emotional appeals, particularly regarding the decline of the nation-state and the erosion of public confidence. The speaker frequently poses critical rhetorical questions to ministers and uses sharp language, accusing the government of being in disarray and lacking leadership. He also utilizes powerful metaphors, such as the "migration pump" and the administrative court becoming a "rubber stamp."
03.2024
14 Speeches
The tone is predominantly critical, sharp, and urgent, especially concerning economic and demographic issues. The speaker uses logical arguments and analogies (VAT, tourism tax) to ridicule the government's positions and highlight their unreasonableness. The speaker employs emotionally charged phrases, criticizing the government for committing "stupidities" and "fattening up bankers who are Swedish owners."
02.2024
28 Speeches
The tone is predominantly critical and concerned, especially regarding issues of the economy and demography, while simultaneously employing direct and personal addresses aimed at the Prime Minister. It uses vivid metaphors (Münchhausen, wolves in sheep's clothing) and personal examples (a tourist farm in Saaremaa, life in sparsely populated areas) to provide emotional and logical support for the arguments. The style is formal, but it also includes humorous interludes (the absence of the yellow book, checking to ensure one's head is still attached).
01.2024
12 Speeches
The speaker’s style is direct, concerned, and at times sharply critical, particularly regarding the government’s sluggishness and ideological detours. They employ emotional appeals (a demographic collapse, business owners having reached their breaking point) and emphasize the urgent need for statesmanship and rational work, criticizing the "war of words" and "ideologized nonsense."