By Months: Urmas Reinsalu
Total Months: 11
Fully Profiled: 11
12.2024
78 Speeches
The rhetorical style is combative, dramatic, and urgent, employing sharp accusations and negative labeling (e.g., "black tax Wednesday," "bungling policy," "cynical game"). It balances logical arguments (budget figures, constitutional questions) with emotional appeals, accusing the government of deceptive policies and arrogant procedures. It repeatedly uses rhetorical questions and demands concrete answers, especially regarding the impact of tax hikes on people's incomes.
11.2024
100 Speeches
The style is predominantly combative, critical, and insistent, emphasizing the poor quality of the government's actions and the lack of legitimacy. Dramatic imagery ("tax pandemic," "perfidiousness," "sadism," "hocus pocus") and rhetorical questions are employed. The speaker blends detailed factual data (budget numbers, percentages) with emotional appeals aimed at protecting the livelihood of the Estonian people and entrepreneurs.
10.2024
57 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharp, confrontational, and penetrating, employing dramatic phrases ("demographic catastrophe," "deceptive bill," "in an Orwellian situation"). The speaker frequently poses rhetorical questions and demands specific answers from the ministers, accusing them of evasion and shifty maneuvering. The speaker attempts to establish new traditions in parliament (e.g., the presiding officer praising a substantive response) and utilizes both logical arguments and emotional appeals for national unity.
09.2024
27 Speeches
The style is sharply critical and combative, employing strong language ("a lying budget," "hocus pocus") and direct personal addresses aimed at the Prime Minister. The rhetoric relies heavily on statistics and numerical comparisons to demonstrate the government's dishonesty and incompetence. The speaker also uses irony, notably by gifting the Prime Minister a microscope in recognition of the cuts to administrative costs, and calls for abandoning the "Kaja Kallas complex."
07.2024
23 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharply critical, combative, and forceful, repeatedly accusing the government of lying and systematically generating insecurity. Both detailed statistical data and emotional appeals (such as a letter from a disabled elderly person) are used to highlight the negative impact of the policy on the middle class and the elderly. The speaker frequently employs rhetorical questions and promises that Isamaa will abolish the car tax once they are back in power.
06.2024
40 Speeches
The style is predominantly combative, critical, and forceful, employing strong emotional and moral appeals (e.g., "lying politics," "shameful," "cynical grotesque"). The Estonian people are often addressed directly, urging them to protest the car tax at the elections. It repeatedly levels accusations of systemic lawbreaking, a leadership crisis, and the Prime Minister's lies, while preferring logical argumentation over sharp accusations.
05.2024
63 Speeches
The speaker employs a highly combative, passionate, and insistent style, frequently utilizing dramatic and colorful language (e.g., "matryoshka of lies," "sadomasochistic support service," "tanks are not afraid of mud"). He balances legal and numerical arguments (referencing specific laws and forecasts) with a powerful emotional appeal, consistently accusing ministers of evading direct answers and misleading parliament. The objective is to create an image of chaos and incompetence generated by the government.
04.2024
11 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, yet sharply critical and combative, especially directed at the Speaker of the Riigikogu, who is accused of lacking impartiality. Strong legal and procedural arguments are employed, emphasizing the principles of the rule of law and strict adherence to the Rules of Procedure Act. The tone is one of concern and protest, expressing urgent worry regarding the abuse of majority power.
03.2024
10 Speeches
Emphatically combative, critical, and urgent, using strong emotional expressions (e.g., "someone is systematically and outrageously lying," "that is simply not okay"). The speaker relies on logical arguments and facts, but presents them in an accusatory tone, often using rhetorical questions ("Who is lying?"). The style is formal but very blunt, accusing the head of government of failing to provide substantive answers.
02.2024
33 Speeches
The speaker's style is predominantly combative, sharp, and insistent, emphasizing the critical nature of the situation and the government's inaction. He relies heavily on logical arguments and statistical data, but also employs emotional language (e.g., "failed," "Orwellism," "we whine ourselves poor") and accuses the Prime Minister of evading answers and relying on "talking points." The tone is formal, yet direct and accusatory.
01.2024
5 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, critical, and urgent, emphasizing the need to act "in real time" during a crisis. Although the speaker begins by expressing a desire for cooperation ("in a benevolent and cooperative manner"), the tone becomes sharp and demanding when criticizing the government's passivity. The appeal is primarily logical and fact-based, referencing the agendas of government sessions and various forecasts.