By Months: Siim Pohlak
Total Months: 18
Fully Profiled: 18
09.2025
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is confrontational, accusatory, and demanding, employing direct rhetorical questions to cast doubt on the prime minister's motives. The tone is formal (given the parliamentary context) but sharply critical in substance, accusing the government of cowardice and dishonesty. The appeal targets both logic (referencing studies) and emotion (the demand for integrity).
06.2025
1 Speeches
The style is formal and direct, addressing the respected manager and the presenter. The speaker employs a rhetorical question ("Doesn't it still seem to you...") to underscore the necessity of improvements and establish a shared point of concern, referencing the mutual negative impact.
05.2025
18 Speeches
The style is highly confrontational, accusatory, and emotionally charged, especially directed at the Reform Party, which is labeled "liars" and whose policies are dismissed as "complete rubbish." The speaker employs sharp comparisons, such as equating the Reform Party's tax policy with Putin's Russia, and demands clarity and action in the responses. The emphasis rests on logical arguments (the economic benefits of tax cuts), which are delivered with a moralizing tone (injustice, reckless spending/spree).
04.2025
5 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharply critical and combative, employing strong accusations (e.g., "wind farm profiteers," "energy poverty," "shoving it through forcefully"). The speaker often presents their views to the government as pointed questions, combining emotional appeals (the plight of large families) with skeptical and logical arguments (the contradiction regarding the profitability of wind farms).
03.2025
7 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharp, critical, and often provocative, employing rhetorical questions to challenge opponents' positions. Emotionally charged terms are utilized, such as ("crazy economic policy," "with slight fear," "insignificant fine-tuning"). Provocative language is used in socio-political matters (for example, regarding equality) to highlight concerns that competence is being replaced by quotas.
02.2025
4 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly accusatory and urgent, particularly concerning energy issues, stressing the immediate necessity for solutions and warning against the closure of businesses. Both logical arguments (economic competitiveness) and emotional expressions ("sleight of hand," "dignity is not negotiable") are employed. The Prime Minister is accused of attacking questioners and attributing false claims to them.
01.2025
14 Speeches
The tone is predominantly combative, critical, and insistent, employing strong emotional appeals and sharp metaphors, such as "the government of simpletons" and "dragging along like the Reform Party's sled rope." The speaker balances logical arguments (the economy as a system of interconnected vessels) with sharp political attacks, accusing the government of "childish and foolish" policies. He frequently repeats his viewpoints to emphasize the extent of the damage caused by the government.
12.2024
15 Speeches
The rhetorical style is combative, sharp, and penetrating, often employing emotional and moralizing expressions, and calling upon coalition deputies to find their conscience. Strong labeling is used (e.g., "scam," "Reform Party's revenge," "fascist logic"), and opponents are directly accused of lying and misleading the people. He also uses ironic references (e.g., "read my lips, taxes will not rise") and repeatedly asks procedural questions.
11.2024
16 Speeches
The rhetorical style is combative, critical, and often accusatory, employing strong emotional appeals, particularly on the themes of national dignity and the protection of rural populations. The speaker consistently accuses opponents of hiding, suppressing debate, and moving forward with a "steamroller" approach. He repeatedly demands "an honest answer" and "common sense," especially when addressing the climate topic, which he labels as "panic" and "scaremongering."
10.2024
15 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, sharp, and accusatory, employing strong emotional appeals (shame, absurdity, arrogant governance). Ministers are accused of cheap demagoguery, showing disdain for intellectual debate, and twisting the questions. The speaker poses many rhetorical questions and compares the government to a ship captain who is steering the country onto the rocks.
09.2024
8 Speeches
The speaker’s style is predominantly combative, critical, and sharp, utilizing strong metaphors, such as comparing the tax hike to curing a headache with a guillotine. He/She levels direct accusations at the government (e.g., "with a direct lie," "failed policy"), emphasizing the Reform Party's "neo-communist policy." The focus is on underscoring the inefficiency and failure of the government's actions, while simultaneously demanding procedural correctness when refuting false claims.
07.2024
5 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and dramatic, employing strong metaphors such as "the train is speeding forward on a downhill track" and "a brutal experiment." The appeals are a mixture of emotional (human suffering, deceit) and logical (budget deficit, numerical comparisons) arguments. The tone is urgent and cautionary.
06.2024
15 Speeches
The speaker's style is highly confrontational, emotional, and accusatory, employing sharp phrases such as "what is wrong with you, precious government coalition" and "political pornography." They present their views forcefully, demanding concrete plans from the ministers and repeatedly utilizing rhetorical questions. The objective is to paint a picture of the government's incompetence and unfairness.
05.2024
16 Speeches
The tone is predominantly combative, sharply critical, and accusatory, directed especially at the government. It employs strong emotional terminology such as "craving for dictatorship," "extremely dangerous argumentation," and "total demagoguery." It repeatedly uses rhetorical questions and demands direct answers, while simultaneously stressing that the government is sidestepping fundamental issues.
04.2024
20 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, critical, and emotional, using sharp metaphors (e.g., milking Estonia dry like a cow, the black hole of the economy). It appeals both to logic (budget deficit, security risks) and to the public's emotions, by asking the minister how he can look pensioners who are struggling to make ends meet in the eye. The speech is formal, but it contains strong accusations directed at the government.
03.2024
38 Speeches
The style is highly combative, critical, and accusatory, employing strong phrases such as "lawyer for the banks," "extremely cynical and arrogant," and "Goebbelsian labeling." The speaker frequently uses rhetorical questions and emotional appeals to underscore the government's injustice and the difficulties faced by the populace (e.g., empty sports shops, shoppers jostling in grocery stores). The speaker demands clarity in the responses, accusing opponents of vagueness and evading responsibility.
02.2024
25 Speeches
The speaking style is combative, critical, and emotionally charged, using strong expressions such as "malicious stalling," "shameful," and "the government steamroller." Appeals are often made to justice and the interests of the Estonian people, contrasting them with the interests of foreign big capital. The speaker demands concrete answers from the Prime Minister, not a "lecture or labeling," and uses accusations of chaos and the silencing of parliament when criticizing the parliament's activities.
01.2024
17 Speeches
The tone is predominantly critical, demanding, and at times shocked, especially when addressing social issues (immigration, birth rate). Direct questions are employed, requiring yes-or-no answers, alongside emotional expressions ("shocking discovery," "put through the wringer"). The focus is on highlighting the deficiencies in the government's actions and demanding justice, combining logical argumentation (the accumulation of taxes) with emotional appeal.