Finnish conservative parties are negotiating the final details of a governing coalition that will include True Finns, one of the most far-right parties in Europe.
The party was already in government between 2015 and 2017 and its leader at the time, Timo Soini, became its chancellor. So they shelved their more radical demands to be part of the coalition, but an internal uprising led by their ultra-topmost branch forced the departure of Soini, who created another political formation out of thin air that remained in government until to 2019, when the socialists of Sanna Marin came to power.
The legislative elections of April 2 gave a result which allowed the return to government of conservatives and liberals, still supported by the extreme right. But today’s real Finns are a far more radical party than less than a decade ago.
That domestic uprising saw her rise to the helm of the Jussi Halla-Aho party, one of the most far-right political leaders in a Europe where the far right has become a regular part of the political landscape.
The plan of the extreme right
The real Finns are now forcing negotiations knowing that without their support there is no viable conservative coalition. AND he wants to impose his entire program.
In migration policy, he supports the elimination of the right to asylum (which would lead Finland to violate European regulations and international conventions to which it is a signatory) and prohibit all types of immigration. He also wants a register that distinguishes native Finns from naturalized Finns.
Halla-Aho said in 2006 that she wanted female politicians in her country who rejected her postulates on immigration policy “to be raped by immigrants”.
In 2011 He called for a coup in Greece so that a military junta would take over the country during the financial crisis. In 2012 she was convicted of incitement to racial hatred. It now requires, among other powers, in the distribution of ministries, cultural policy, migration and control of public media.
The negotiation, led by the conservative Petteri Orpo (who should be the next premier) advances in four bands with conservatives, liberals, Christian Democrats and this far-right party, which with 20.1% of the votes in the legislatures will be the second force of the executive.
Halla-Aho knows his figure generates a profound rejection in the other political formations, for which he put Riikka Purra at the head of the party, with more moderate forms but the same radical background of reactionary nationalism.
Purra is just a puppet, according to the Finnish press, and the power of the party remains in the hands of Halla-Aho.
Halla-Aho also belongs to the Suomen Sisu nationalist organization. Created in 1998, it is a platform which aims for Finland to cut all its relations with any supranational body such as the European Union, NATO (the country has just joined) or even the United Nations.
When the newspaper ‘Lansivayla’ branded Suomen Sisu as an organization with a “Nazi spirit”, the platform appealed to Justice, which sided with the newspaper. Promotions of books by Nazi and neo-Nazi authors such as Alfred Rosenberg or David Duke have been published on his website.
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Source: Clarin
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