Posted on 12/15/2017 3:03:04 AM PST by SkyPilot
Finland will leave the European Union and position itself as the Switzerland of the north to protect its independence if Laura Huhtasaari, the presidential candidate of the eurosceptic Finns Party has her way.
Finns Party deputy chairman and presidential candidate Laura Huhtasaari poses for a picture at the Finland's Parliament in Helsinki, Finland December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Tuomas Forsell
She also told Reuters in an interview she wants to tighten immigration rules.
Huhtasaari -- dubbed “Finland’s Marine Le Pen” after France’s National Front leader -- is a long-shot. But she believes she has a real chance in the January election as her party has taken a fresh start following its removal from the coalition government in June.
”The rise in Europe of parties that are critical towards the EU and immigration is due to bad, unjust politics,“ she said. ”The role for Finland in the euro zone is the role of a loser and payer...
“I do not want Finland to become a province of EU, Finns must stand up for Finland’s interests.”
The Finns Party, formerly called “True Finns”, rose from obscurity during the euro zone debt crisis with an anti-EU platform, complicating the bloc’s bailout talks with troubled states.
It expanded into the second-biggest parliamentary party in 2015 and joined the government, but then saw its support drop due to compromises in the three-party coalition.
This June, the party picked a new hard-line leadership and got kicked out of the government, while more than half of its lawmakers left the party and formed a new group to keep their government seats.
Huhtasaari, 38, who was picked as deputy party leader in June, said voters were still confused after the split-up but that the party would eventually bounce back.
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I would vote for her.
I guarantee the European and American presstitutes will accuse her of being a "White Nationalist" and a "Nazi."
She wants to curb the Muslim invasion in Finland and she is blond, pretty, and blue eyed.
The press and the EU thugs just "can't see why" most Europeans want the Muslims out.
Good
Trouble is EU paradise.
GOOD!!!!!
Praying for Finland.
Is this a real party or some 2 percent fringe group that will form the rump end of a watered-down coalition?
I wish ‘em luck. All western nations have swamps.
She sure is a cutie.
It’s not just OK.
It’s the roots of civilization. Stand and be proud.
Fexit!
Good idea! Last country left in the EU gets stuck holding the bag.
That's the $64,000 Question!
In the 2015 election the party got 17.7% of the votes [...] In 2015 they joined the government coalition formed by Prime Minister Sipilä. Following a 2017 split, over half of the party's MPs left the parliamentary group and were subsequently expelled from their party membership.
-Wikipedia
So, to answer your question: Sounds like they do not represent very much of the electorate and are not likely to succeed in getting Finnland out of the E.U.
Regards,
A real party. She is a member of Parliment.
Their party got 9% of the vote, down from 15.5%. But they will gain more votes this year, especially with their anti-EU and anti-refugee platform. Moreover, the percentages matter less in parliamentary systems. We Americans think in terms of our own political system. It is much different from parliamentary, where coalitions are formed and thereby even a minority has much more clout than their percentage. Look at the UK and German governments, where this is very much the game.
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