Finland: What can the True Finns truly do?

The 19 percent won by the True Finns on April 17 is a political earthquake for the Finns and a worry for the rest of Europe. But the party of Timo Soini will have to negotiate to impose its ideas, and stay united through the inevitable compromises. This will not happen all by itself, observes the daily Aamulehti.

The Finnish political landscape has completely changed overnight as the party of Timo Soini, the “True Finns”, turned out the big winners in the elections, earning 19 percent of the vote against just four percent in 2007. The National Coalition Party, which picked up 20.4 percent of the vote, has been the largest party for years, but what can its chairman and current Minister of Finance, Jyrki Katainen, do?

To judge by the results of the ballots alone, by the middle of June Finland should have a government put together by Katainen, Soini and Jutta Urpilainen, the chair of the Social Democratic Party [which won 19.1 percent]. But Katainen, who is heading the negotiations, is confronted with a tough case. The differences in percentage between the parties are minimal, and Soini, the big winner, will stand his ground.

Plenty of hard bargaining will have to take place before Katainen, Urpilainen and Soini can hash out the future government’s programme. At the centre of the battle is the bailout package for Portugal. The opinions of the SDP and the True Finns [both parties oppose European bailouts] are known, but what will the National Coalition do?

The grapes of victory have been sweet, so far If Brussels does not budge and Katainen sticks to his guns, will Soini and Urpilainen form a government together? The situation is complicated because Soini has to be in the game, and the Centre party ought to depart for the opposition benches. The defeat of the Centre [the party of outgoing Prime Minister got only 15.8 percent] is a historic event as important as the victory of the True Finns.

Analysing the outcome of the election will take more time. It is too early to say whether politics in Finland have truly changed, or if the route taken by Soini will be identical to that of his forerunner, Veikko Vennamo. While Vennamo was the party chairman of the Finnish Rural Party, the True Finns’ predecessor, he got the party into parliament, but as a political force it was soon spent.

In the wake of their victory the True Finns have enormous hopes. If the party fails to stay united, however, Soini’s mission will be a tough one indeed. If the new delegates from the True Finns remain disciplined and show a sense of realpolitik, cooperation between the parties can flourish.

What the vote has revealed is a desire for change. The risk is that if Soini cannot hold onto the reins of his party and a deal cannot be worked out with the other parties, that failure to cooperate may be seen as a show of contempt for the wishes of the population.

The grapes of victory have been sweet, so far. It remains to be seen whether the fruit can cling to the vine through the months ahead.

True Finns, from what I’ve read, are like Geert Wilders-Le Pen, anti-Islamification political groups that the Jihadists and PC-stricken Liberals call “racists and Islamaphobes”.

Ironically, the Right in Europe is beginning to rise, look up English Defence League and some other native European groups rising up to combat the Muslim hordes that the open borders diversity fools have thrust upon them.

Sound familiar?

Normally there is a silent majority everywhere who usually just keep their heads down,work and take care of their families.It’s when things begin to interfere with those things that they rise up.Europe is undergoing a great awakening.I just hope they didn’t sleep too long.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
It’s the country for me.

You’re so near to Russia,
So far from Japan,
Quite a long way from Cairo,
Lots of miles from Vietnam.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

You’re so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

Finland has it all.

True Finns, from what I’ve read, are like Geert Wilders-Le Pen, anti-Islamification political groups that the Jihadists and PC-stricken Liberals call “racists and Islamaphobes”. Ironically, the Right in Europe is beginning to rise, look up English Defence League and some other native European groups rising up to combat the Muslim hordes that the open borders diversity fools have thrust upon them. Sound familiar?

It's the same story and reason why I don't believe Europe will be Islamic in future. Things can get ...messy... if the Islamics won't adapt, but they'll either adapt or perish.

I can tell that here in Finland the local "multiculti" Greens and Reds are going absolutely apesh*t, especially on social media. Note that nobody except the mentally disturbed doubt the validity of the elections themselves: Even most disappointed Communists (yes, we have communists here, including a bunch of genuine Marxists) admit that the people have spoken. Of course, many claim that the people were misled and bamboozled by Soini's populism and "voted wrong"...

True Finns are being openly condemned as fascist and racist, but most people are starting to see through the BS. Especially the Internet is seriously crumbling the "right-thinking" narrative pushed by the local mainstream media. Which, unsurprisingly, tried to heavily keep the True Finns down. (Nothing new here, see Finlandization...)

In every country, the situation with the Leftists and Islamists is always the same. The people who represent the most serious and dangerous threat to a Liberal “lifestyle” be it homosexuality, open practice of religion/non-religion, environmental protections, government jobs, unions, women’s rights, first world thought (roads, plumbing, internet, food, transportation) are all completely lacking in the Arab world, save Westernized gaudy shows of oil wealth like Dubai.

Liberals seems to be suicidal, that is why I loathe them as one day, they will either be steamrolled or standing against me as a mortal enemy.

Imagine a transexual in Tehran speaking on the horrors on discrimination and the ability to vote? Me neither.

They seem okay. Not quite Geert Wilders. Not at all Le Pen, Le Pen is Fascist/Socialist piece of crap.

They’re descended from a rural agrarian party.

They could stand to be more fiscally conservative. But I hear they are against an EU bailout of Portugal and that is a good thing.

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