By Plenary Sessions: Andres Metsoja
Total Sessions: 6
Fully Profiled: 6
2025-09-25
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is insistent, critical, and highly demanding, underscoring the public's dissatisfaction and expectations. The speaker employs direct address ("Dear Urmas") and poses pointed questions, demanding immediate solutions to break the current deadlock, thereby balancing the emotional appeal (reflecting the public sentiment) with a practical requirement (stating what needs to be done).
2025-09-24
Fifteenth Riigikogu, sixth sitting, plenary sitting.
The rhetorical style is pragmatic and logical, emphasizing the application of sound judgment in legislation and user convenience. The speaker uses concrete examples (a cable reel, caravans) to persuade and poses rhetorical questions to highlight the unfairness of the current legal framework. The overall tone is explanatory and solution-oriented.
2025-09-17
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary sitting.
The speaker's style is critical, analytical, and formal, focusing on logical and procedural errors (e.g., the lack of legal certainty). He uses economic examples (Dutch tomatoes, the Tallink flag change) to illustrate the arguments and emphasizes that state intervention is unjust. The tone is concerned, suggesting that economic policy is being driven into a ditch.
2025-09-17
Fifteenth Riigikogu, sixth sitting, press briefing.
The rhetorical style is critical and forceful, emphasizing emotional appeal by referencing people's immediate feelings and their lack of hope. Strong contrasts are employed (security vs. chaos), and the style is formal yet direct, citing information gathered during the local elections. He admits that the prime minister speaks "quite convincingly," but contrasts this with the reality of everyday life.
2025-09-16
Fifteenth Riigikogu, sixth sitting, plenary sitting.
The rhetorical style is concerned and pressing, describing the situation as a "mire" that must be escaped. Formal language is used (addressing the presiding officer and the Chancellor of Justice), along with strong value-based appeals ("Property is sacred and inviolable").
2025-09-04
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu
The tone is predominantly formal, substantive, and policy-centered, focusing on the necessity of specific legislative changes. The appeals are primarily logical and problem-based, highlighting deficiencies in the legal framework (e.g., the impossibility of hunting wolves or the unreasonableness of insurance). There is moderate urgency, especially concerning national defense and environmental protection issues, emphasizing that national defense is "under special attention."