By Months: Tanel Tein

Total Months: 10

Fully Profiled: 10

09.2025

2 Speeches

The rhetorical style is formal, legislative, and highly structured, listing the bill's four main areas of amendment. The tone is businesslike and persuasive, relying on logical arguments (additional revenue, security, competitiveness) and avoiding emotional appeals.
06.2025

2 Speeches

The rhetorical style is formal, procedural, and interrogative, commencing with polite addresses to the presiding officer of the session. The speaker poses direct questions concerning the adoption of the bill, the adequacy of inclusion, and the associated risks, while maintaining an analytical tone grounded in logical arguments.
04.2025

2 Speeches

The rhetorical style is polite and inquisitive, always addressing the ministers with gratitude and respect. It employs a logical and problem-centered approach, focusing on practical solutions (e.g., AI) and reflecting concerns that have been repeatedly raised by the public.
02.2025

11 Speeches

The speech is formal, argumentative, and forward-looking, employing both logical economic reasoning and emotional appeals (e.g., "Shells are not more important than children"). The tone is optimistic, yet it strongly emphasizes the necessity of "bold and innovative decisions." The speaker uses metaphors (e.g., the base of the sports pyramid) and provides examples (Iceland’s football victory and birth rate) to illustrate their viewpoints.
01.2025

1 Speeches

The style is analytical and inquisitive, focusing on political inquiry and the search for solutions. The appeal is logical and data-driven, emphasizing efficiency and utilizing specific percentages (30%). The speaker employs a rhetorical question to cast doubt on the necessity of the major hospital project.
10.2024

4 Speeches

The rhetorical style is formal and analytical, focusing on asking questions and demanding detailed calculations ("Has such a calculation actually been done?"). The tone is pragmatic and directed towards economic results and the benefit to the state budget, avoiding emotional appeals.
05.2024

10 Speeches

The rhetorical style is formal and structured, characteristic of a committee rapporteur who first summarizes the debate and subsequently offers their own views. The tone is constructive and solution-oriented, primarily emphasizing fiscal reality and logical arguments (e.g., why the old funding system failed). He uses comparisons (e.g., the pension system model) to clarify new ideas.
04.2024

3 Speeches

The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and logic-based, adhering to the problem-setting and resolution structure inherited from the private sector. The tone is constructive, yet it stresses the urgent necessity of reforming inefficient systems (e.g., the tax law concerning donations). Extensive data and examples are utilized to substantiate the arguments.
02.2024

2 Speeches

The rhetorical style is highly formal and procedural, utilizing proper forms of address (Mr./Madam Chair, esteemed Minister of Foreign Affairs, distinguished members of the Riigikogu). The speech is direct and neutral, focusing either on posing specific questions or clarifying the substance and background of the draft legislation. Emotional or personal appeals are absent.
01.2024

1 Speeches

The style is formal and interrogative, addressing the Prime Minister with a constructive proposal. Logical argumentation is utilized, highlighting a successful historical model (science funding five years ago) and inquiring about its potential in other sectors. The tone is moderate and solution-oriented.