Posts Tagged “Timo Soini”

Analysis: True Finns against discrimination

By | May 30, 2011

Last week True Finns party came out with their declaration against discrimination. Let’s take a look at the text first and then amuse ourselves a bit.

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Profile: Scriptures of Halla-aho

By | May 8, 2011

Jussi Halla-aho

Jussi Halla-aho was a popular candidate of True Finns in the general election in April, only shadowed by Timo Soini. Halla-aho was then given the chair of Finnish Parliament’s Administration Committee. The issues handled by the committee include immigration, policy, gun and municipality policies. The immigration and gun policies are among Halla-aho’s heartfelt interests. So [...]

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Profile: Who the hell is Timo Soini?

By | April 18, 2011

Timo Soini gained more personal votes than anyone else in the Finnish parliamentary elections. [Image from Wikipedia Commons, author: Soppakanuuna, License: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The populist True Finns party lead by Timo Soini made history on Sunday by gaining 34 seats in the Finnish parliamentary election. Their vote rose by 15 percentage points compared with the last election in 2007. Their anti-bailout attitude has made Portugal somewhat nervous. Timo Soini received more votes than any other candidate. He has [...]

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