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.
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.
Timo Juhani Soini is a Finnish politician who is the co-founder and former leader of the Finns Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2015 to 2017 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2019.
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.
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.
Teuvo Hakkarainen is a Finnish politician and former member of the European Parliament. Before being elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 election,he had been a member of the Finnish Parliament since 2011.
An election for the election of the delegation from Finland to the European Parliament took place on 25 May 2014 with advance voting from 14 to 20 May. Finnish voters elected thirteen members to the European Parliament.
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.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 14 April 2019. For the first time,no party received more than 20% of the vote. The Centre Party,which had been the largest party following the 2015 elections,dropped to fourth place,losing 18 seats and recording its lowest vote share since 1917. The Social Democratic Party saw the biggest gains,winning six more seats and narrowly becoming the largest party for the first time since 1999. The Green League and the Left Alliance also gained five and four seats respectively.
Katri Briitta Ilona Kulmuni is a Finnish politician who served as the 35th deputy prime minister of Finland and the leader of the Centre Party between 2019 and 2020. A member of the Centre Party,she was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2024. In the 2024 European Parliament election,she was elected to the European Parliament.
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.
The Finnish Reform Movement,previously known as Blue Reform,was a Finnish conservative political party.
Arja Sinikka Juvonen is a Finnish politician who represents the conservative Finns Party in the Parliament of Finland.
Maria Karoliina Ohisalo is a Finnish politician and researcher who served as Minister of the Interior between 2019 and 2021. The former chairman of the Green League,she has been a Member of Parliament since 2019.
Ano Veli Samuel Turtiainen is a Finnish former powerlifter and Far right politician. who served in the Parliament of Finland for the South-Eastern Finland constituency from 2019 to 2023. He is also founder and former leader of the 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 for posting a tweet perceived as mocking the murder of George Floyd in February 2021.
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.
Jorma Antero Piisinen is a Finnish television presenter,journalist and current Member of Parliament,regional councillor and city councillor in Järvenpää. He is known as the presenter of the programme Joka kodin asuntomarkkinat on MTV3 from 1991 to 2010. Piisinen became its main character in 1993. With the publicity,Piisinen also became a popular performer at various fairs.
Joakim Mikael Vigelius is a Finnish politician of the Finns Party,a member of the Parliament,and a former regional councilor in the Pirkanmaa welfare region. He served as the chairman of the Finns Party Youth from 2022 to 2023,until he resigned from the youth organization's chairmanship and the regional council after being elected to the Parliament from the Pirkanmaa district in the 2023 parliamentary elections.
