Tag: Finnish Party
Wednesday papers: Pressure from the Finnish Party, gifts for teachers, frost coming
Helsingin Sanomat writes that the Basic Finns show that they are dissatisfied with the support role in the new coalition government.
Basic Finns dominate the media in Finland’s election news
The party has also attracted attention with the debates on the NATO membership debates and the debates on the Translaw Act and the Sámi assemblies. The analysis covers domestic editorial media coverage of the parliamentary elections from January 1 to February 19, 2023. Basic Finns accounted for 19% of all party mentions in the coverage…
Helsinki May Day Crash Car owned by an official of the Ministry of Finance, a new candidate for election
The Ministry of Finance has confirmed that one of its officials owns a car that collided with nine vehicles on May Day in Helsinki. Three men, including the driver, were injured in Saturday’s crash series, while a video from the scene shows the car barely overtaking several pedestrians at high speed. By Monday afternoon, police…
Basic Finnish Halla-aho to chair the Foreign Affairs Committee
Member of Parliament and former leader of the Perussuomalainen party Jussi Halla-aho is set to replace Mika Niikko as chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs. Chairman of the Finnish Party Riikka Purra confirmed the news to Yle as the first news of Helsingin Sanomat. "The official decision will, of course, be made at…
Iltalehti: Former leader of the Finnish Party on sick leave
Former chairman of the Finnish party, Member of Parliament Jussi Halla-aho, has not attended parliamentary sessions for more than four weeks, Iltalehti has reported. IL wrote that Halla-aho had been absent from all nine of Parliament’s plenary sessions since the end of last month, during which time she had also ignored meetings of Parliament’s Grand…
Former leader of the Finnish party on sick leave, Iltalehti says
Former chairman of the Finnish party, Member of Parliament Jussi Halla-aho, has not attended parliamentary sessions for more than four weeks, Iltalehti has reported. IL wrote that Halla-aho had been absent from all nine of Parliament’s plenary sessions since the end of last month, during which time she had also ignored meetings of Parliament’s Grand…
The Greens are calling for marijuana to be legalized in Finland
The vote was reportedly very close, and party members approved the initiative with a narrow margin of 183–181. The move has provoked heated debates and divided opinions among Finnish political parties. Evening News reports that the youth wing of the National Coalition Party, which had previously supported the decriminalization of marijuana use and cultivation, expressed…
Most parties are in favor of banning the use of the swastika, the Basic Finns oppose it
The majority of Finnish parliamentary parties would be prepared to criminalize the public disclosure of swastika tickets, according to the results of the Yle survey of both parties’ parliamentary groups. The investigation comes after the Helsinki District Court dismissed the charges of five men suspected of inciting participation in an ethnic group in the presentation…
The leader of the Finnish party, Halla-aho, announces his intention to resign
MP Jussi Halla-The leader of the Finnish opposition party -aho has announced that he does not intend to run again at the party’s annual meeting in August. Halla-aho announced an unexpected announcement during the party webcast on Monday, but said he was telling him "inside" last year’s plans. Halla-aho has been the face of the…
Yle poll: NCP leads election campaign
The National Coalition Party leads Yle’s last party support poll before the local elections with 19.6 percent support. The Finnish Party was in second place with 18 per cent and the Social Democrats in third place with 17 per cent. The Social Democrats fell the most in the poll, and their support fell 1.1 percentage…
Report: Fewer young candidates in the 2021 municipal elections
According to a report by Statistics Finland, there will be fewer young candidates in the 2021 municipal elections than in previous surveys, and the average age of candidates will rise. The FICORA found that in 2021, the average age of eligible candidates will be 50 years old, which is about six months older than the…
The government wins a vote of confidence in economic and employment policy
On Wednesday afternoon, the Finnish government won a vote of confidence in Parliament by 106 votes to 75, with 18 abstentions. All members of parliament voted on the lines of either the governing or opposition parties. The opposition National Coalition, the Christian Democrats and the Movement Now parties had tabled a motion of censure on…
Finland approves the EU’s Covid return package
Finland has achieved the required two-thirds majority in parliament to approve the EU’s € 750 billion Covid stimulus package in a controversial vote, preceded by a days-long filibuster by the Eurosceptic Finnish Party. On Tuesday afternoon, MPs voted on packages 134-57 with two abstentions and six abstentions. The vote took place at the tip of…
Vice-Chairman of the Finns’ Party: Government overcrowded Covid support for municipalities
Vice-Chairman of the Finnish Party Riikka Purra has accused the government of spending too much money to support municipalities during the Covid pandemic. In 2020, the government had granted the municipalities about three billion euros in support to support the economy when economic activity ceased. Purra told Yle on Saturday morning’s talk show that the…
Vice-Chairman of the Finnish Party: The government gained popularity with the support of Covid
Vice-Chairman of the Finnish Party Riikka Purra has accused the government of spending too much money to support municipalities during the Covid pandemic. In 2020, the government had granted the municipalities about three billion euros in support to support the economy when economic activity ceased. Purra told Yle on Saturday morning’s talk show that the…
The speaker condemns the tweet on the MP’s “threatening” mask mandate
President of Parliament Anu Vehviläinen (Cen) has condemned a "threatening" Tweet sent by MP Ano Turtiainen and said he intended to take the matter to Parliament when MEPs returned from Easter holiday. Turtiainen said in his tweet that his friend is ready to kill if the use of masks becomes mandatory in Finland. "A friend…
Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson will survive the motion of censure
Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson (SPP) survived the vote of confidence in Parliament by 103 votes to 66. The Finnish party had filed a motion of censure against Minister of Justice Anna-Maja Henriksson, claiming that she had misled citizens and called on municipalities to break the law due to the postponement of this spring’s municipal…
Resistance to challenge the government in economic and employment policy
On Wednesday, the Finnish government announced the conclusions of its long-awaited budget meeting and said that it had agreed on measures that, together with its previous decisions, should increase the number of employed by 31,000 to 36,000 by the end of the decade. The announcement received criticism from opposition parties describing the measures as inadequate…
Opposition parties are challenging the government’s budget targets
The parliamentary group of the Conservative National Coalition Party (NCP) announced on Thursday that three other opposition parties have agreed to join it to challenge the government’s budget plan announced the day before. The proposed budget calls for a deficit of € 10.8 billion next year. The parties must provide additional information at a press…
