The spectrum of the sharp rise of the far right mark the legislative elections held today Finland. The concern, however, transcends the borders of the Nordic countries fully affects the euro area, due to the strong rejection of the European bailouts preach populist formation of the True Finns. The latest poll published by public broadcaster YLE shows a slight decline of the party with respect to previous surveys, placing about 15.4% of voting intentions.
The training had reached 18% in other polls. Even so, the party would triple its seats in the Finnish parliament, and put on edge capacity of the current conservative coalition, pro-European bailouts to stay in power. The four allied parties that make up the Executive today are around 53% in the last poll.
If the coalition government failed to repeat most, negotiations to form an alternative government would be presented extremely complicated. Timo Soini, leader of the True Finns, said he will not participate "in a government that uses taxpayer funds to help some guys who spend the money on casino sprees." The issue is exacerbated by the position of the Social Democratic Party, with 18% in the intention to vote and also rejects the European bailouts in its present format.
The president of the Social Democrats, Juttu Urpilainen, said his party would not support the bailout as Portugal is conceived. "The forms should be reconsidered bailout, banks must also pay their share of responsibility," he said in the last televised debate. Eero Hienäluoma, one of the leaders of Social Democracy, stressed the distances.
"We can not form a government with the conservatives and centrists to continue implementing their right-wing policies. We want to enter the Government to strengthen the welfare state, not weaken it." Addition of a European financial stabilization and the welfare state, another theme has emerged during the campaign: immigration.
Migrants represent only 3.5% of a population of 5.2 million inhabitants, one of the lowest figures in the entire European Union. However, the True Finns were able to place the issue at the center of political debate and to draw much benefit from its anti-immigration proposals. The rise of populist training has forced the major parties to tighten their programs and court the anti-immigrant vote.
This is a dynamic that is already affecting many years to other Nordic countries. The anti-immigration extreme right came last year for the first time in the Swedish Parliament and caused a tightening of policy in power conservative coalition led by Fredrik Reinfeldt. In Denmark, the far right also has a consistent representation in Parliament.
The Minister of Immigration, Astrid Thors, the Popular Party, was the subject through a network of death threats by a former councilmen of the True Finns. "It's a shame that we have not used the drive to clarify our policy on immigration.'s Own prime minister, Mari Kiviniemi [Centre Party], still disoriented and confused concepts such as immigration and asylum policy," he told this newspaper the Minister Thors.
The elections also marked by an ambiguous national economic dynamics. On the one hand, Finland has fairly stable public finances, with a deficit of 2.5% of GDP and a debt of 48%. Furthermore, the country suffered one of the most severe recessions in the West in 2009, the year that GDP contracted by 8%.
The unemployment rate is currently around 8.5%. In 2007 was 6.8%. 
The training had reached 18% in other polls. Even so, the party would triple its seats in the Finnish parliament, and put on edge capacity of the current conservative coalition, pro-European bailouts to stay in power. The four allied parties that make up the Executive today are around 53% in the last poll.
If the coalition government failed to repeat most, negotiations to form an alternative government would be presented extremely complicated. Timo Soini, leader of the True Finns, said he will not participate "in a government that uses taxpayer funds to help some guys who spend the money on casino sprees." The issue is exacerbated by the position of the Social Democratic Party, with 18% in the intention to vote and also rejects the European bailouts in its present format.
The president of the Social Democrats, Juttu Urpilainen, said his party would not support the bailout as Portugal is conceived. "The forms should be reconsidered bailout, banks must also pay their share of responsibility," he said in the last televised debate. Eero Hienäluoma, one of the leaders of Social Democracy, stressed the distances.
"We can not form a government with the conservatives and centrists to continue implementing their right-wing policies. We want to enter the Government to strengthen the welfare state, not weaken it." Addition of a European financial stabilization and the welfare state, another theme has emerged during the campaign: immigration.
Migrants represent only 3.5% of a population of 5.2 million inhabitants, one of the lowest figures in the entire European Union. However, the True Finns were able to place the issue at the center of political debate and to draw much benefit from its anti-immigration proposals. The rise of populist training has forced the major parties to tighten their programs and court the anti-immigrant vote.
This is a dynamic that is already affecting many years to other Nordic countries. The anti-immigration extreme right came last year for the first time in the Swedish Parliament and caused a tightening of policy in power conservative coalition led by Fredrik Reinfeldt. In Denmark, the far right also has a consistent representation in Parliament.
The Minister of Immigration, Astrid Thors, the Popular Party, was the subject through a network of death threats by a former councilmen of the True Finns. "It's a shame that we have not used the drive to clarify our policy on immigration.'s Own prime minister, Mari Kiviniemi [Centre Party], still disoriented and confused concepts such as immigration and asylum policy," he told this newspaper the Minister Thors.
The elections also marked by an ambiguous national economic dynamics. On the one hand, Finland has fairly stable public finances, with a deficit of 2.5% of GDP and a debt of 48%. Furthermore, the country suffered one of the most severe recessions in the West in 2009, the year that GDP contracted by 8%.
The unemployment rate is currently around 8.5%. In 2007 was 6.8%.
On a global scale Finns in general are quite leftists and liberal.
ReplyDeleteTrue Finns ("Everyday-Finns would be a more accurate translation) don't come even close of being "extreme right"...
In some other countries (like US), the values of True Finns would be considered to be more to left from center than to right.