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To: VanDeKoik
Is this a real party or some 2 percent fringe group that will form the rump end of a watered-down coalition?

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,

10 posted on 12/15/2017 4:57:00 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

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.


12 posted on 12/15/2017 5:46:51 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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