The Finnish Centre Party is an agrarian, centrist party that was founded in 1908. It long had a dominant role in Finnish politics, including Urho Kekkonen, the longest-serving President of Finland. Their support has been in a long-term decline and last night, they got wiped out, not winning a single region. From a historical point of view, this is quite stunning.
What happened to make them lose that many votes so quickly? I get that they were declining, but that seems like a rather steep decline
And even though the Estonian Centre Party is rather different (Russian minority, pensioners, left-wing populist), it also saw a major decline in parliamentary seats just last month, going down from 26 to 16 seats (of 101), having received 26-29 seats constantly in 1999-2019.
My heart is crying because of the success of the far right but at least the defeat of keskusta gives me a little sparkle of joy.
So interesting…
What can we expect from the new government? Is there an article I can read about it?
What the hell caused this anyway?
interesting changings there (southwest)
pop right – minority interests – pop right again
pop right – centre left – pop right
trying sth.
Aren’t PS against the Paris climate accords and for the peat industry? Talk about people voting for their own demise.
I’m not liking this growth of the far right in Scandinavia/the nordics. Something’s going on and it’s not good.
Only the tip was left of kok: (
Quite suprising seeing PS being the largest in Vaasa electoral district. Isn’t their main thing to remove Swedish as an official language?
Ke-Kekkonen?
So how dumb is the finnish right wing compared to the UK/UK ones?
As the saying goes “kepu, five letters you can trust”
Never be happy with just having a great democracy 😂
The problem is that many left-wing parties ignore and downplay the migration issue. The only left-wing party that has gotten it right so far has been the Danish Social Democrats. If we do not want to see climate protection and social policy destroyed by the neoliberal conservatives, then the left-wing parties must finally change course on migration policy.
What I find odd about the Finish election is that the current government got almost 2% more votes than the entire collected opposition, but the opposition got 2 more MPs than the government. One of the opposition MPs is from Åland and caucuses with the Swedish peoples party though, which is part of the current government.
We will see how this all pans out, it’s far from the crush of the headlines, any new government with the right wing at the head will either have to rely on the social democrats or on the extreme right, but if the latter, they will need the Swedish peoples party in order to get more than 100 MPs (half), which doesn’t seem likely since part of the “True finns” entire raison d’être is for the Finnish language to be the only official language.
Åland had different party system from Mainland Finland, but their only MP represents Åland’s Centre, who are also a Nordic agrarian party.
Based Suomi
Centrists are just right wingers who don’t want to be labeled right wing. If you do nothing to support change then even if you don’t oppose it specifically, you’re still helping those who oppose change.
The Swedish Center Party went the same way, with 25.1 % votes in the 1973 election to 8.8% of the votes in the 1985 election. Thorbjörn Fälldin of the Center Party was the prime minister of Sweden a couple of times between 1976-1981.
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The Finnish Centre Party is an agrarian, centrist party that was founded in 1908. It long had a dominant role in Finnish politics, including Urho Kekkonen, the longest-serving President of Finland. Their support has been in a long-term decline and last night, they got wiped out, not winning a single region. From a historical point of view, this is quite stunning.
What happened to make them lose that many votes so quickly? I get that they were declining, but that seems like a rather steep decline
And even though the Estonian Centre Party is rather different (Russian minority, pensioners, left-wing populist), it also saw a major decline in parliamentary seats just last month, going down from 26 to 16 seats (of 101), having received 26-29 seats constantly in 1999-2019.
My heart is crying because of the success of the far right but at least the defeat of keskusta gives me a little sparkle of joy.
So interesting…
What can we expect from the new government? Is there an article I can read about it?
What the hell caused this anyway?
interesting changings there (southwest)
pop right – minority interests – pop right again
pop right – centre left – pop right
trying sth.
Aren’t PS against the Paris climate accords and for the peat industry? Talk about people voting for their own demise.
I’m not liking this growth of the far right in Scandinavia/the nordics. Something’s going on and it’s not good.
Only the tip was left of kok: (
Quite suprising seeing PS being the largest in Vaasa electoral district. Isn’t their main thing to remove Swedish as an official language?
Ke-Kekkonen?
So how dumb is the finnish right wing compared to the UK/UK ones?
As the saying goes “kepu, five letters you can trust”
Never be happy with just having a great democracy 😂
The problem is that many left-wing parties ignore and downplay the migration issue. The only left-wing party that has gotten it right so far has been the Danish Social Democrats. If we do not want to see climate protection and social policy destroyed by the neoliberal conservatives, then the left-wing parties must finally change course on migration policy.
What I find odd about the Finish election is that the current government got almost 2% more votes than the entire collected opposition, but the opposition got 2 more MPs than the government. One of the opposition MPs is from Åland and caucuses with the Swedish peoples party though, which is part of the current government.
We will see how this all pans out, it’s far from the crush of the headlines, any new government with the right wing at the head will either have to rely on the social democrats or on the extreme right, but if the latter, they will need the Swedish peoples party in order to get more than 100 MPs (half), which doesn’t seem likely since part of the “True finns” entire raison d’être is for the Finnish language to be the only official language.
Åland had different party system from Mainland Finland, but their only MP represents Åland’s Centre, who are also a Nordic agrarian party.
Based Suomi
Centrists are just right wingers who don’t want to be labeled right wing. If you do nothing to support change then even if you don’t oppose it specifically, you’re still helping those who oppose change.
The Swedish Center Party went the same way, with 25.1 % votes in the 1973 election to 8.8% of the votes in the 1985 election. Thorbjörn Fälldin of the Center Party was the prime minister of Sweden a couple of times between 1976-1981.