By Months: Aivar Sõerd
Total Months: 9
Fully Profiled: 9
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.