By Plenary Sessions: Anti Poolamets
Total Sessions: 4
Fully Profiled: 4
2025-09-22
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is highly combative, critical, and dramatic, employing strong accusations (e.g., "bungling," "powerless national defense," "in a burning house"). The speaker contrasts the government’s "hollow slogans" and "cliché-mongering" with sobering facts, emphasizing the urgent need for change. The text utilizes both logical arguments (economic comparisons with the USA and China) and emotional appeals (the destruction of natural landscapes).
2025-09-15
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary sitting
The rhetorical style is interrogative, critical, and demanding, underscoring the need for accountability and explanations ("How is all this even possible?"). Formal address is employed ("Dear Minister!"), and the argumentation is logical, relying on facts and specific references (the State Audit Office report, farmers' losses). The tone is one of concern, particularly regarding food security and the absence of internal controls.
2025-09-10
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
The rhetorical style is extremely confrontational, aggressive, and accusatory, repeatedly employing direct accusations of lying ("You lied!"). The tone is angry and critical, emphasizing the opponent's stupidity and incompetence in foreign relations. Strong emotional appeals and personal attacks are utilized, including referring to the opponent as the "chief 'uhhuu,' or idiot."
2025-09-04
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu
The rhetorical style is predominantly critical and combative, employing strong accusations of misleading and disinforming the public (these are levelled against the Minister of the Interior). The speaker relies both on concrete data (regarding immigration and defense capability) and on emotional and value-based appeals (such as the protection of indigenous peoples and children's education). Historical parallels are also utilized to criticize the anti-democratic attitude of the socialists.