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.
The Senate of Finland combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1816 to 1917 and in the independent Finland from 1917 to 1918.
Finns Party Youth is the former youth wing of the Finns Party,a political party in Finland. The youth wing was officially founded in 2006. However,Finns Party decided to cut ties with Finns Party Youth due to the perceived ethno nationalist support in the youth wing in 2020. The youth wing went bankrupt in May 2020,due to the cut support. The temporary chair of the new youth wing is Jenna Simula,a current MP.
Suomen Sisu is a nonpartisan Finnish association that defines itself as nationalist and patriotic,criticizing unlimited immigration and multiculturalism. Suomen Sisu proclaims to support the idea of independent nation states,that govern themselves sovereignly,and opposes supranational co-operation,especially the European Union. Suomen Sisu was established as the Youth Organisation of the Association of Finnish Culture and Identity in 1998,but this affiliation was broken in 2000. The organization is not affiliated with any political party,but its members have operated in several parties as individuals,particularly within the Finns Party.
Jussi Kristian Halla-aho is a Finnish politician,currently serving as the Speaker of the Parliament of Finland since 2023. Halla-aho has served as a member of the Parliament of Finland from 2011 to 2014 and again since 2019,and as the leader of the Finns Party from 10 June 2017 to 14 August 2021. Previously,between 2014 and 2019,he was a member of the European Parliament,where he was part of the Identity and Democracy group.
Vesa-Matti Saarakkala was a Finnish Member of Parliament from 2011 to 2019 and a member of Kurikka's city council.
James Hirvisaari is a Finnish politician. He was elected to the Finnish Parliament in the 2011 general election held on 17 April on the electoral list of the Finns Party,but since 2013 he has represented Change 2011.
Sampo Terho is a Finnish politician who served as Minister for European Affairs,Culture and Sports. He was the chairman of Suomalaisuuden Liitto and was earlier a Member of the European Parliament.
Jussi Niinistö is a Finnish politician and a former Minister of Defence and a former member of Finnish Parliament,representing the Finns Party 2011–2017 and Blue Reform since 2017. By occupation he is a military historian,a docent of Finnish history in the University of Helsinki and a docent of military history in the Finnish National Defence University. In 2013 he was elected as the first vice-chairman of the True Finns,but lost his seat in 2017.
Teuvo Hakkarainen is a Finnish politician and member of the European Parliament,representing the Finns Party. Before being elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 election,he had been a member of the Finnish Parliament since 2011.
Jari Tapani Lindström is a Finnish politician and former Minister of Employment. He represented the Finns Party till 2017 and was first elected to the Parliament in 2011 in the former constituency of Kymi. In 2014,Lindström was appointed the chairman of the Finns Party parliamentary group. In the 2015 elections he maintained his seat,standing in the newly formed South-Eastern constituency. He was appointed as both Minister of Justice and Minister of Employment in May 2015.
Hanna Katariina Mäntylä is a Finnish politician and the former Minister of Social Affairs and Health. She represented the Finns Party until June 2017 and was the second deputy chairwoman of the party. She was elected to the Parliament from Lapland in 2011. She maintained her seat in the 2015 parliamentary election. She was appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Health in May 2015.
The 2017 Finns Party leadership election was held in Jyväskylä,Finland,on June 10,2017,to elect the new chair of the Finns Party. All members of the party who had paid their subscription were allowed to vote in the election.
Miika Sebastian Tynkkynen is a Finnish politician. He has been chairman of the Finns Party Youth and third vice chairman of the Finns Party. He was elected as a member of Finnish Parliament in April 2019 and was a candidate as Member of European Parliament for the 2019 elections.
The 2017 Finnish government crisis followed the Finns Party leadership election held on 10 June 2017. Prime Minister Juha Sipiläand Minister of Finance Petteri Orpo announced on 12 June that they would no longer cooperate in a coalition government with the Finns Party after Jussi Halla-aho was elected party chairman. The crisis resolved on 13 June when twenty MPs defected from the Finns Party's parliamentary group,forming what would eventually become The Finnish Reform Movement party. Sipilä's government retained a majority in Finland's parliament as The Finnish Reform Movement continued as a member of the coalition.
Ano Veli Samuel Turtiainen is a Finnish former powerlifter and politician who served in the Parliament of Finland for the South-Eastern Finland constituency from 2019 to 2023. He is also founder and leader of Power Belongs to the People party. He lives in Juva. Turtiainen was elected to the parliament in the 2019 parliamentary election. Turtiainen was expelled from the Finns Party due to him posting a tweet perceived as mocking the murder of George Floyd in February 2021.
In Finland,the far right was strongest in 1920–1940 when the Academic Karelia Society,Lapua Movement,Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) and Export Peace operated in the country and had hundreds of thousands of members. In addition to these dominant far-right and fascist organizations,smaller Nazi parties operated as well.
Power Belongs to the People formerly known as Parliamentary Group Ano Turtiainen (AT),is a political party in Finland. Ano Turtiainen is its group leader and was its only member of parliament. The group's rules state that the purpose of the group's activities is "to act in parliament in the interests of Finland and Finns and to have freedom of speech in elections".
The 2021 Finns Party leadership election was held in Jyväskylä,Finland,on 14 August 2021. All members of the party who had paid their subscription were allowed to vote in the election.
