By Months: Aleksandr Tšaplõgin
Total Months: 18
Fully Profiled: 18
10.2025
9 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal (addressing the minister) and urgent, emphasizing the criticality of poverty as "the most serious" problem. A direct question about the budget is used, combining an emotional appeal (thousands of borrowers) with political pressure aimed at finding solutions.
06.2025
12 Speeches
The style is predominantly confrontational, critical, and accusatory, charging the government with electoral fraud and the "insane burning" of state funds. Strong emotional terminology is employed ("ridiculous," "destructive," "great deception"), appealing both to logic (by referencing economic laws and foreign models) and moral legitimacy. The speaker frequently utilizes citation (political analyst Martin Mölder, President Alar Karis) to lend greater weight to their arguments.
05.2025
6 Speeches
The rhetorical style is critical, urgent, and at times confrontational, particularly when addressing issues related to consumer costs and social justice. It employs both logical arguments and statistics (e.g., the level of social expenditure as a percentage of GDP) and emotional appeals, such as questions about trusting the public and showing compassion for people. Strong judgments are utilized, including labeling the green transition "insane."
04.2025
7 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharp, critical, and argumentative, utilizing opponents' quotes and specific statistical data to support its claims. The speaker poses complex questions and highlights both the cynicism of the situation (e.g., the state earning profit) and its urgency (e.g., the danger of sitting in darkness). The style is formal, typically employed during Riigikogu (Parliament) sessions.
03.2025
15 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative, accusatory, and emotional, frequently employing strong language (e.g., "green socialism," "endless lying," "the insane plan"). Historical parallels are drawn (Bolsheviks), and appeals are made to morality and patriotism (the War of Independence). The speaker often poses sharp rhetorical questions and demands direct answers from the government regarding the fundamental principles of economic operation.
02.2025
5 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly aggressive, emotional, and accusatory, employing strong moral indictments (robbery, shame) and historical comparisons (Bolsheviks). The speaker frequently poses sharp rhetorical questions to challenge the government’s priorities, justice, and the minister’s personal convictions (faith in God). The address is formal in structure but passionate and polarizing in substance.
01.2025
11 Speeches
The style is formal and confident, often critical and demanding, especially regarding procedural matters. Balanced logical and economic arguments are used ("a schoolchild understands," "in the interest of the economy"), but moral values, such as solidarity, are also emphasized. The speaker is specific and aims to be concise, using direct rhetorical questions to challenge the opponents' viewpoints.
12.2024
14 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharp, critical, and combative, employing strong accusations directed at the government ("the robbing of the poor Estonian people," "government mess"). The speaker combines logical arguments (quarters of economic decline, the percentage of price increases) with emotional comparisons, for example, comparing Estonia's economic decline to Haiti, a country currently experiencing a civil war. Challenging rhetorical questions are often posed to the opposing side to emphasize the illogical nature of the government's actions.
11.2024
14 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly combative and critical, leveling accusations against the government for injustice and the squandering of public funds. It employs both logical arguments (such as the impact of the tax burden on the economy) and emotional appeals, focusing heavily on the plight of the poor and pensioners. The speaker frequently poses sharp rhetorical questions and utilizes direct accusations, such as claiming "they are robbing [us]."
10.2024
14 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharply confrontational and emotional, often employing moral judgments and accusations directed at the government. Repeated rhetorical questions are used to underscore the government's injustice (e.g., taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich). The speaker uses strong language such as "shame" and "stupidity," and contrasts his own lack of academic education with that of the minister.
09.2024
14 Speeches
The rhetorical style is sharply critical and combative, employing powerful phrases such as "economic suicide" and "catastrophe." The speaker frequently addresses rhetorical questions to the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers, demanding concrete plans to stimulate economic growth or halt rising prices. These appeals blend hard economic data (inflation, forecasts) with an emotional emphasis on social injustice (children living in poverty, feeding someone for just one euro).
07.2024
7 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly combative and critical, employing strong emotional expressions such as "plunder" and "pure madness" to characterize the government's policy. The appeals are directed both at economic logic (the slowdown of economic growth) and social justice (the impact on the poorer segments of society). The speeches are delivered in a formal parliamentary environment, addressing the esteemed Presiding Officer and colleagues.
06.2024
13 Speeches
The speaker's rhetorical style is predominantly combative and critical, using strong language to judge the government's actions, calling the car tax "a very bad idea" and the supplementary budget "the budget of stagnation, poverty, and lack of economic growth." He presents his views through direct questions and emotional appeals, stressing that voters should not have to suffer for the government's mistakes. The speeches maintain a formal tone, addressing the respected presiding officer and the ministers.
05.2024
24 Speeches
The rhetorical style is predominantly confrontational and accusatory, often employing sharp rhetorical questions to highlight the government's incompetence or immorality ("Aren't you ashamed?", "Which of you is lying?"). The speaker combines logical arguments (e.g., statistics on the number of officials, the lack of transparency in e-elections) with emotional accusations ("you are robbing the poor"). The style remains formal during parliamentary sessions, but the message is direct and critical.
04.2024
18 Speeches
The rhetorical style is confrontational, critical, and emotional, employing strong accusations ("suicide policy," "robbing citizens") and moral condemnation ("Shame!" "Have you no shame?"). Rhetorical questions are often used to challenge the opponents' logic, and the plight of vulnerable groups (such as a begging elderly woman) is emphasized.
03.2024
8 Speeches
The rhetorical style is highly aggressive, confrontational, and accusatory, especially directed at the Prime Minister. Sharp and blunt questions are repeatedly employed, underscoring moral injustice and the government's incompetence ("why do you lie all the time?"). The appeals are primarily emotional, focusing on rising poverty and the government's lack of credibility.
02.2024
8 Speeches
The speaker's style is confrontational, accusatory, and emotionally charged, repeatedly using rhetorical questions to call the government's motives into question ("Whose interests are you serving?"). The tone is passionate and focuses primarily on moral appeals (injustice, solidarity), pitting life-savers against rewarded bureaucrats. The speaker also addresses procedural disturbances occurring in the chamber.
01.2024
8 Speeches
The rhetorical style is critical, demanding, and questioning, focusing on governmental accountability. Numerous rhetorical questions are employed, which cast doubt on the government's claims and actions (such as influencing the media or the state of the economy). The tone is formal (using standard forms of address) but combative in substance, demanding explanations and evidence from the government regarding improvements in the lives of the populace.