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It seems that its support base didn't take kindly to their coalition with austerity-promoting center-right parties.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finns_party_loses_out_as_greens_rise_in_local_elections/9555861

Preliminary results in Finland's local elections suggest the co-ruling Finns Party has lost a big chunk of support since the last parliamentary election in 2015, when the party polled 17.7 percent of the vote. The party is struggling to match the 12.3 percent it recorded in the last local elections in 2012, with nearly half of the expected votes counted.
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That swagger has dissipated somewhat since the party entered government in 2015 and leader Timo Soini assumed the post of Foreign Minister. Once in government, the upstart party made compromises on its election stance on bailouts and immigration that proved to be deeply unpopular with its support base, many of whom defected to other parties.

Soini has announced he will step down as leader this summer, with parliamentary group leader Sampo Terho and hardline anti-immigration MEP Jussi Halla-aho favourites to succeed him.

With support now lagging way behind the peaks of 2011 and 2015, the party now has big decisions ahead of it. Asked about the early results in light of the party's breakthrough results in previous elections, Soini suggested that the party may have come to the end of its winning ways.

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