By Months: Evelin Poolamets
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is confrontational and provocative, posing direct procedural questions to the chair of the session. The speaker employs an extreme and provocative hypothetical example (taking off one's trousers) to maximize emotional impact and underscore the gravity of the minister's improper conduct.
09.2025
39 Speeches
The speaker's rhetorical style is sharply critical and combative, employing strong and emotional language such as "green racket," "fake science," and "insane experiments." He balances logical arguments (financial data, statistics) with emotional appeals, emphasizing the burden placed on Estonian people and businesses. The speech is formal, yet it contains pointed accusations directed at the government.
06.2025
35 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharply critical and forceful, utilizing strong emotional appeals (the destruction of dignity, the ruin of domestic peace) alongside detailed technical and legal arguments. The speaker accuses the government of "green madness" and evading responsibility, painting a picture of the rule of law eroding and a system that is "like the Wild West." He repeatedly draws comparisons to the Tallinn TV Tower to emphasize the massive scale of the wind turbines.
05.2025
46 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly critical and combative, particularly on the topics of the green transition, taxes, and immigration, employing an urgent and anxious tone. The speaker combines emotional appeals (such as the concerns of rural residents and the value of home) with economic and logical arguments (costs, competitiveness). Strong metaphors and accusations are utilized (e.g., the government lies, hot air/nonsense, electricity production colony), and the speaker repeatedly asks for extra time for lengthy presentations.
04.2025
30 Speeches
The speaker’s style is predominantly combative, critical, and insistent, employing strong language ("embarrassing situation," "to demolish," "chaos"). They balance emotional appeals (protecting public health, women’s dignity) with detailed data and technical arguments, particularly regarding wind farms. Rhetorical questions and direct accusations of government foolishness or catering to private interests are frequently used.
03.2025
49 Speeches
The rhetorical style is insistent, combative, and moralizing, employing strong emotional appeals and accusations of unethical conduct (e.g., "rehepaplik suhtumine," "criminal"). The speaker frequently uses rhetorical questions and contrasts (e.g., the disappearance of taxpayer money versus a lack of accountability). The criticism is direct and intense, especially when aimed at the government's actions, and topics are often framed within the context of national survival or security.
02.2025
13 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and emotionally charged, particularly when aimed at the government and wind farm developers. Sharp metaphors are employed, labeling government members as "wind energy salesmen" and likening the developers' actions to "extortion and the mafia." The speaker frequently uses rhetorical questions to challenge the competence and moral compass of the ministers, often citing dramatic examples (such as putting a schoolhouse up for sale).
01.2025
19 Speeches
The tone is predominantly critical and argumentative, especially concerning government policies. The author uses strong, emotional comparisons, referring to unsubstantiated representation expenses as "under-the-table payments" and describing the situation as "degrading," in order to highlight the moral issue stemming from the lack of transparency. The appeal is made to both logic (the polluter pays principle) and fairness, backing up the arguments with data and international standards (the Nordic model).
12.2024
23 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly critical and urgent, emphasizing moral and ethical responsibility (the safety of children, the survival of the nation). It uses strong, ideological terminology, labeling sustainability reporting as "communism" and the "imposition of left-wing ideology." Appeals are made both to logic (the lack of impact analysis) and to emotions (a child is "priceless"). One presentation concluded with an unusual, humorous, and politically charged interaction with Santa Claus.
11.2024
20 Speeches
The style is formal, yet often sharp and confrontational, particularly when criticizing the government's actions, employing direct accusations (e.g., "drugs in the coalition"). When presenting the bill, he/she employs both logical arguments (EU harmonization, motivation) and emotional appeals, highlighting time spent with family and expressing regret over having worked too much.
10.2024
36 Speeches
The style is urgent, combative, and sharply critical, employing strong emotional language ("unprecedented and cruel," "tsunami of massive bureaucracy"). Ministers are frequently challenged with rhetorical questions, and specific data or analyses are demanded. Beyond political criticism, the style also utilizes highly personal attacks, such as listing Jürgen Ligi’s previous misogynistic statements during the motion of no confidence against him.
09.2024
25 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly combative, critical, and urgent, emphasizing the seriousness of the topics (the threat of population extinction). Both statistical data (a logical appeal) and strong value judgments and emotional language are employed to condemn the government's actions. Striking expressions are used, such as "building a Potemkin village," "the invasion of wind farms," and "a family-hostile government."
07.2024
8 Speeches
The rhetorical style is critical, penetrating, and confrontational, especially towards the prime ministerial candidate and the subject of the no-confidence motion. The appeals are primarily logical and data-driven, relying on economic indicators and the fundamental tenets of the state budget to highlight the government's errors.
06.2024
4 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly aggressive, accusatory, and formal, employing parliamentary forms of address ("respected chair of the session," "the subject of the no-confidence motion"). The speaker poses direct and sharp questions aimed at exposing alleged unethical conduct. The style relies on factual assertions and information sourced from the media (the Latvian Prosecutor's Office, the press).
05.2024
11 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly aggressive, critical, and forceful, emphasizing the "lawless situation" in Estonia. Ministers are posed direct questions regarding their failures and previous contradictory positions. Both emotional appeals (the protection of the Estonian language) and logical, technical arguments (the dangers of food irradiation) are employed, while maintaining the formal tone of a Riigikogu address.
04.2024
32 Speeches
The speaker's rhetorical style is predominantly combative and critical, frequently leveling sharp, accusatory questions at ministers (for instance, regarding conflicts of interest and corruption risks). The speaker employs strong emotional appeals when addressing social issues (such as the erosion of children's sense of security and incidents of violence), and demands strict procedural adherence, going so far as to criticize the session chair's comments (the "well, yeah" remark and subsequent snickering).
03.2024
31 Speeches
The rhetorical style is combative and urgent, often utilizing sarcasm (e.g., the question of coming to work on horseback) and a moral framework (e.g., the extinction of the Estonian nation, the ethics of gender reassignment). A long speech on noise regulation combines technical details with a broad ideological critique, accusing Euro directives of undermining the rule of law. Anecdotal examples are also used to illustrate arguments (e.g., a woman wearing a burqa in a café).
02.2024
13 Speeches
The style is formal, but the tone regarding security issues is urgent and critical, employing figurative language such as "the bomb is already ticking" and "the state remains in a dormant condition." It appeals both to logic (utility debts, visa policy) and to emotions (the threat of social catastrophe), demanding that the government quickly wake up and take action.
01.2024
23 Speeches
The rhetorical style is suspicious and combative, employing strong value-laden expressions ("unacceptable," "strong-arm tactics") and accusing the government of having hidden agendas (referencing the "Stark-Logistics government"). Numerous rhetorical questions are used to highlight contradictions and ethical issues (e.g., gender equality in DNA testing requirements). The emotional appeal emphasizes the financial burden placed on homeowners and pensioners, as well as the violation of the sanctity of the grave at the Bronze Soldier monument.