By Months: Riina Solman

Total Months: 19

Fully Profiled: 19

10.2025

20 Speeches

The rhetorical style is initially questioning and concerned, later becoming sharply critical and confrontational towards the minister. Both emotional appeals (children's mental health, concern, disappointment) and logical and procedural arguments (lack of analysis, body of knowledge/expertise) are employed. The speaker expresses disappointment regarding the minister's self-confidence and unwillingness to listen to others, using the figurative expression, "self-confidence has completely flared up."
09.2025

44 Speeches

The rhetorical style is predominantly confrontational and demanding, especially toward ministers, requiring them to answer the questions asked, rather than just saying what they want to say. The tone is often urgent and concerned, particularly regarding family policy, where the significance of every lost second is emphasized. The language employs both emotional appeals (such as 'sending a warm signal to families') and direct, colloquial expressions (referencing an uncensored word, or accusing the minister in a 'pot calling the kettle black' situation).
06.2025

45 Speeches

The rhetorical style is sharply critical, accusatory, and forceful, employing strong emotional appeals (poverty, suffering in care homes) while simultaneously referencing specific figures (a billion euros in tax hikes). It frequently uses contrast and accuses the government of "sleight of hand" and "lying," and the foreign minister of "arrogant and condescending" behavior. The style is formal but also includes ironic remarks (e.g., the grilling of Võrklaev, the ERJK bill).
05.2025

38 Speeches

The style is predominantly critical, serious, and pressing, especially concerning the government's actions and its lack of accountability. The speaker employs strong emotional appeals (for instance, when describing the Pihlakodu incident and the poverty faced by the elderly) and contrasts "honesty" and "substantive answers" with the Reform Party's "sloganeering" and "smoke and mirrors." He/She favors detailed policy analysis over simple rhetoric, but also utilizes sharp political accusations ("jokk," "inhumane").
04.2025

33 Speeches

The speaker's style is often urgent and confrontational, especially directed at the Prime Minister, who is accused of lying and attempting to humiliate female politicians. He/She balances emotional appeals (child poverty, going to bed hungry) with detailed political and technical arguments (energy policy, the tax bracket issue). Despite the formal setting of the Riigikogu (Parliament), the rhetoric is at times personally aggressive and accusatory.
03.2025

24 Speeches

The rhetorical style is predominantly critical and insistent, employing strong emotional appeals, especially concerning families and the birth rate crisis ("men come with tears in their eyes"). The speaker is confrontational at the Riigikogu (Parliament) podium, demanding honesty from the government and accusing them of hypocrisy and arrogance. He/She often contrasts the government's "broad-based" approach with the necessary "focused" action, and employs sharp personal attacks by quoting the former prime minister's lies.
02.2025

19 Speeches

The rhetorical style is predominantly combative, urgent, and passionate, especially when dealing with issues of security and national values. It employs strong emotional appeals, referencing historical events (the Ingrian Finns, the 2007 Bronze Night crisis) and accusing opponents of naivety, outright falsehoods, or unethical behavior. The speaker often uses rhetorical questions and emphasizes the duty of loyalty owed to the Estonian state.
01.2025

21 Speeches

The tone is predominantly critical, concerned, and accusatory, particularly regarding the government's arrogant conduct and lack of political culture. It employs emotional appeals (referencing the "cries for help" from families with many children) and contrasts the opposition's integrity with the coalition's "steamroller" tactics. The style is formal, but it contains sharp personal and ideological criticism.
12.2024

42 Speeches

The rhetorical style is often combative, passionate, and insistent, especially concerning child safety and demography, employing powerful emotional appeals (e.g., the ball brought from Israel). Numerous rhetorical questions are directed at the ministers ("Why are we afraid of our judiciary?"). The tone is highly critical of the government's competence and value-based policies, accusing them of "breaking their word" and engaging in "sleight of hand."
11.2024

33 Speeches

The tone is combative and moralistic, employing strong emotional appeals to emphasize the cynicism and injustice of the government's actions toward vulnerable groups. Figurative expressions are used ("steamroller," "illusionists," "hostage"), and the speaker demands a responsible and personal explanation, rather than a technical response. The speaker is formally polite but demanding, praising the ministers for their honesty but criticizing their actions.
10.2024

45 Speeches

The rhetoric is largely confrontational and critical, utilizing strong emotional appeals (a sense of security, negligence) and moralizing judgments about the government's actions ("cynicism," "breaking their word"). The speaker accuses opponents of demagoguery and obfuscation while simultaneously demanding concrete data and a clear vision, thereby balancing emotionality with the demand for facts. He also employs personal attacks, accusing ministers of verbally assaulting female politicians.
09.2024

18 Speeches

The rhetorical style is predominantly critical and insistent, especially concerning socio-political issues, where emotional terms such as "inciting class antagonism," "reckless," and "shameful" are employed. The speaker repeatedly uses the metaphor "politics is the art of signals" and emphasizes constitutional principles and the preservation of dignity throughout their arguments. Furthermore, they personally admonish the ministers to provide political input and to oversee bureaucratic operations.
07.2024

11 Speeches

The speaker adopts a sharply confrontational and passionate style, frequently employing rhetorical questions to challenge the government's actions. While the emphasis relies heavily on emotional appeal, channeled through vulnerable target groups, the speaker simultaneously presents logical arguments highlighting the contradiction between the government's words and deeds. The government's slogan, "Certainty," is labeled a marketing element that, in reality, signifies "Uncertainty."
06.2024

11 Speeches

The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and passionate, especially directed toward members of the government (e.g., Annely Akkermann), who are directly accused of lying and obfuscation. Strong emotional appeals are utilized (e.g., "wicked fairy tale character," "taken away from children"), while simultaneously supporting the claims with concrete data and statistical sources. The tone is urgent and concerned, emphasizing the need to stand up for the democratic world order and listen to experts.
05.2024

12 Speeches

The style is sharp, aggressive, and critical, employing strong judgments (e.g., "hypocritical," "a masterclass in demagoguery," "in breach of promise"). Emphasis is placed on both emotional appeals (betraying families with children, offending the feelings of believers) and logical argumentation, relying on demographic data and studies. The speaker uses rhetorical questions to highlight the unreasonableness and unethical nature of the government's actions.
04.2024

11 Speeches

The speaker's rhetoric is predominantly combative, critical, and emotionally charged, especially on social welfare topics, where strong accusations like "incitement to hatred" and the "shaming" of families are employed. He/She uses emotional appeals, citing letters from parents of devastated large families to emphasize the harmful nature of the government's actions. The style is formal, but often sharp, employing rhetorical questions and ironic remarks directed at the ministers.
03.2024

24 Speeches

The tone is predominantly critical, accusatory, and insistent, particularly on family policy issues, where the government's actions are described as "delivering blows" and "harassing" families. It employs strong emotional appeals, emphasizing the plight of large families and cancer patients, alongside sharp personal attacks targeting the ministers' lack of empathy. The style is formal, but it also includes accusations regarding the prime minister's "whining" and "lying."
02.2024

13 Speeches

The speaker's rhetorical style is predominantly combative and critical, employing strong emotional appeals, particularly when detailing the situation of large families and rural inhabitants. Sharp language is used to criticize the actions of ministers, accusing them of rudeness, concealing plans, and engaging in demagoguery. The speaker repeatedly stresses the injustice and irresponsibility of the government's actions.
01.2024

10 Speeches

The tone is critical, insistent, and occasionally accusatory, particularly concerning the government's inaction (security, teachers' strike) and the raising of costs. It utilizes both emotional appeals (the car tax causes "resentment") and logical arguments, focusing on concrete areas for savings and the effects of bureaucracy. The style is formal and concentrates on the details of policy.