By Months: Aivar Sõerd
Total Months: 16
Fully Profiled: 16
10.2025
8 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, substantive, and procedural, making it suitable for a presentation by the leading committee's representative before the Riigikogu. The speaker focuses on logical argumentation, presenting consensus decisions and the content of the draft bill across four thematic areas. The tone is neutral and informative, avoiding emotional appeals while emphasizing the significance of the draft bill for the Estonian financial market.
09.2025
6 Speeches
The style is highly formal, detailed, and procedural, particularly when reporting the committee's work before the Riigikogu (Parliament). The tone is neutral and analytical, focusing on facts, dates, and consensus decisions. Emotional appeals are absent; the emphasis is placed on logic and the technical precision of the legislation.
06.2025
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, yet sharply questioning and challenging, especially when addressing the Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee. The speaker relies heavily on logical arguments, citing specific percentages (77.5%) and budget lines, and favors a data-driven approach over emotional appeals.
05.2025
12 Speeches
The style is formal, analytical, and procedural, particularly when delivering committee reports. The criticism is sharp and grounded in logic, leveling accusations against the opposing party for advancing a concept based on misrepresentations. Rather than resorting to emotional appeals, the speaker relies on factual evidence, explanatory memoranda, and a detailed account of the committee's deliberations, maintaining a low profile in his capacity as the committee representative.
04.2025
14 Speeches
The speaker employs a formal, analytical, and data-driven style, particularly in committee presentations. When criticizing opponents' draft legislation, the tone is sharp, and questions are posed rhetorically, casting doubt on the quality of the bill’s preparation ("excessive flaws"). The argumentation relies on logical and economic facts, strictly avoiding emotional appeals.
02.2025
9 Speeches
The style is formal, analytical, and occasionally sharp, particularly when refuting counterarguments ("I completely refute this claim"). It primarily utilizes logical arguments and data, demanding a concrete and well-reasoned explanation of the tax system's structure from the opposing party. The addresses are straightforward and focus on the core issue ("But let's get down to business").
01.2025
3 Speeches
Rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and interrogative, focusing on logical and procedural arguments. The speaker poses repeated questions to challenge the thoroughness of the draft ("have you really thought this thing through properly?") and the suitability of the underlying documents. The tone is skeptical and critical, stressing that the proposed solution "is very broad in scope and does not increase transparency."
12.2024
8 Speeches
The style is highly formal, analytical, and procedure-oriented, employing salutations typical of a Riigikogu address ("esteemed Chairman," "dear colleagues"). The speaker concentrates on logical arguments, referencing specific committee meeting dates and consensus positions. The tone is critical regarding the lack of budget transparency, yet remains neutral and fact-based concerning the adoption of the report.
11.2024
6 Speeches
The style is formal and procedural when presenting draft legislation, focusing on the details of the process and consensus decisions. When criticizing the budgetary methodology, however, the tone shifts to sharply critical and even condemnatory, using phrases like "a complete failure" and "senseless extravagance." The arguments are primarily logical and data-driven, relying on concrete examples of artificial metrics.
10.2024
13 Speeches
The tone is analytical, businesslike, and occasionally corrective, fixing the questioners' misstatements and exaggerations (e.g., "misappropriation/skimming"). He primarily uses logical appeals and economic data, emphasizing fact-based reasoning and adherence to procedural rules in his role as a commission representative. The speaker is formal but engages directly with the questioners, defending his positions with detailed economic arguments.
09.2024
1 Speeches
The style is formal and interrogative, addressing "Esteemed Chairman" and "Esteemed Minister" directly. The speaker employs logical argumentation, focusing on specific budget items and the follow-up of previous decisions (the supplementary budget explanatory memorandum), while maintaining a tone that is appropriate and moderately critical.
07.2024
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal and analytical, posing direct and logical questions to the presenter. The tone is challenging yet procedural, focusing on demanding definitions and criteria in order to challenge the grounds of the opposition addressed by the commission.
06.2024
2 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly formal, procedural, and data-driven. When the question is posed, statistics are employed to establish a skeptical and challenging tone, thereby casting doubt on the reform's outcomes. In the report, the style is strictly neutral and descriptive, focusing on the precise conveyance of the commission's discussions and consensus decisions.
05.2024
12 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and data-driven. The tone is critical and questioning, particularly regarding the fiscal calculations and administrative expenditures presented by the government, demanding specific answers concerning the number of officials and fixed costs. The appeals are primarily logical, focusing on details and procedural rules, such as defining the scope of the committee's discussion.
03.2024
4 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and data-driven, particularly when addressing tax matters, where reliance is placed on specific details and research. When discussing healthcare, the tone becomes more critical, emphasizing the long-term nature of the issues (referred to as an "old problem"), although the appeals remain primarily logical and procedural. The speaker raises questions and expresses doubts in order to draw attention to potential negative consequences.
01.2024
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal and straightforward, employing respectful address when speaking to the minister. The tone is serious and critical, emphasizing the gravity of the issue and demanding a resolution, while focusing on logical arguments concerning bureaucracy and inefficiency.