By Plenary Sessions: Anti Poolamets
Total Sessions: 6
Fully Profiled: 6
2025-03-25
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and demanding, employing powerful emotional appeals and labeling the situation "a disgrace to the Estonian state." The speaker utilizes metaphors ("loopholes") and rhetorical questions to underscore systemic injustice and hypocrisy. The overall tone is formal, yet the substance is sharp and uncompromising.
2025-03-24
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session.
The rhetorical style is sharply critical and combative, employing powerful emotional appeals that highlight injustice and the exploitation of the taxpayer ("at the expense of the poor Estonian taxpayer"). Figurative expressions are utilized ("billions are simply squandered," "a true Big Peter and Little Peter scheme"), and the speculative and absurd nature of the situation is underscored.
2025-03-19
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is predominantly combative, sharp, and highly emotional, especially when opponents are being criticized. Strong accusations and moral condemnation ("Have you no shame?") are employed, mixing political criticism with pointed personal attacks. The speaker also uses vivid language and personal observations (such as those made while leaving a café) to illustrate their arguments.
2025-03-17
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and forceful, employing strong emotional appeals and irony. The speaker uses quotes and references to criticize the opponents' viewpoints and poses sharp rhetorical questions, accusing the ministers of living in "another reality."
2025-03-13
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is critical and demanding, focusing on questioning the actions of state institutions and stressing the need for investigation. Formal language is employed, but it is interspersed with sharper expressions, such as referring to vaccine recommenders as "executioners" [or "cutthroats"]. The appeal addresses both specific facts (deaths) and procedural failures.
2025-03-11
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The rhetorical style is extremely combative, emotional, and accusatory, employing harsh labels ("prophet of woo-woo sciences," "socialist madness") and hyperbole (doomsday panic, Mao Zedong). The speaker appeals directly to the public and children, emphasizing the need to protect Estonia's intellectual space and schools. Historical parallels (Lenin’s bas-relief, the planning committee) are used to discredit the opponents' policies, and extra time is demanded to extend the debate.