Current Events > Nationalist party in Finland has lost half its support.

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Antifar
04/10/17 9:09:45 AM
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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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foreveraIone
04/10/17 9:10:15 AM
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how much of trump insanity is discouraging the far right in europe?
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coolboy11
04/10/17 10:18:06 AM
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foreveraIone posted...
how much of trump insanity is discouraging the far right in europe?

a lot
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bretonftw
04/10/17 10:21:35 AM
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foreveraIone posted...
how much of trump insanity is discouraging the far right in europe?


Trump + Brexit is why it failed in the Netherlands too, with Wilders only returning to 2010 rates.

If Le Pen loses we can safely say these "shock politics" are over and we can go back to acting properly.
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foreveraIone
04/10/17 10:23:09 AM
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fuck off breton
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ROD
04/10/17 10:23:28 AM
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bretonftw posted...
foreveraIone posted...
how much of trump insanity is discouraging the far right in europe?


Trump + Brexit is why it failed in the Netherlands too, with Wilders only returning to 2010 rates.

If Le Pen loses we can safely say these "shock politics" are over and we can go back to acting properly.


isn't tourism a high % of france's revenue?

Why would they even entertain the idea of a candidate who will close the doors to tourism that isn't Aryan or something like that?
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Solar_Crimson
04/10/17 10:31:32 AM
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Good to see common sense returning to some extent.

Hopefully the US will see it in 2018/2020.
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Gojak_v3
04/10/17 10:34:12 AM
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Antifar posted...
didn't take kindly to their coalition with austerity-promoting center-right parties.


Well people are stupid when it comes to, "muh entitlements." But it's Finland so I don't give a shit what they do.
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Antifar
04/10/17 10:38:32 AM
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It seems people do not like when government policies negatively impact their budget. Who knew?
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bretonftw
04/10/17 10:42:54 AM
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foreveraIone posted...
fuck off breton


Sad that the disastrous ramifications of Brexit forcing so many businesses to shut down and Trump's utter failure in everything he's promised to do has made people wise up to the bullshit of the trendy shock politics?

I'd say that's it. Enjoy paying for your wall.
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