Political career
In 2012 he joined the Finns Party [3] and ran for the City Council of Oulu,receiving 232 votes [4] but was not elected. In November 2014 Tynkkynen was elected chairman of the Finns Party Youth. [5] He received 1,474 votes [6] in the 2015 parliamentary election and was not elected to the Parliament. However,Tynkkynen was elected third vice chairman of the Finns Party on 8 August 2015,defeating incumbent Juho Eerola. [7]
Tynkkynen criticized the Finns Party leadership for its politics in the SipiläCabinet,calling for more euroskeptic and anti-immigration politics. [8] In October 2015 he was expelled from the party. The official reason for this was that he had published a list of names of party members who called for a new party congress. [8] His expulsion was considered illegal by some experts. [2] In January 2016 Tynkkynen was allowed to rejoin the party although he had to give up his position as the vice chairman. [9]
On 20 November 2016 Tynkkynen was succeeded by Samuli Voutila as the chairman of the Finns Party Youth. [10] In late 2018 Tynkkynen tried to regain the Finns Party Youth chairman seat [11] but he got fewer votes than the other candidate Asseri Kinnunen.
In January 2017,Tynkkynen was fined 300 euros for posting on Facebook,"The fewer Muslims in Finland,the better. [...] The less we see of Muslims,it is safer. We have to get rid of Islam before it is too late". [12] In April 2017 Tynkkynen was elected to the City Council of Oulu with 680 votes. [13]
In October 2019 Tynkkynen was convicted of ethnic agitation for the second time and issued a 50 day-fine (approximately 4000 euros based on his income) for comments on Muslims. [14]
From Friday 14 May to Saturday 15 May 2021,Tynkkynen gave the longest ever floor speech at the Parliament of Finland in the entire history of the parliament,lasting almost eight and a half hours from 6:06 PM on Friday to 2:30 AM on Saturday. He argued against the approval of the EU's stimulus package in the speech that was seen as a filibuster to delay the parliament's vote on the matter. [15]
In October 2021,Tynkkynen was convicted for a third time for inciting ethnic agitation,being issued a 70 day-fine (approximately 4400 euros). [16]
In years 2021,2023 and 2025,he gained,retained and lost respectively the position of third vice chairman of the Finns party. [17]
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