Finns Party
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The Finns Party, formerly known as the True Finns, is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
Stall at Hakaniemi square, Helsinki in 2010
Timo Soini, chairperson for twenty years
Election tent in 2018
Ex-police commissioner and MP Raimo Vistbacka was elected the first chairperson of the Finns Party in the Kokkola Party Congress in November 1995. Photograph from 2011
Parliament of Finland
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The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that power
Finns Party
…achieved its electoral breakthrough in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election, when it won 19.1% of votes, becoming the third largest party in the Parliament of Finland. In the 2015 election the party got 17.7% of the votes, making it the parliament's second-largest political party. The party was in opposition for the…
Eduskunta istuntosali
The Diet of Porvoo is opened by Tsar Alexander I in 1809.
Parliament session hall in 1907
The Finnish Senate of 1917, Prime Minister P. E. Svinhufvud in the head of table