The recent Parliament Election in Finland has been created some wild items in European newspapers and also in NY Times:
Finland’s Turn to Right Sends Shivers Through Euro Zone
The parties who lost most in the election have been most active in "informing" and feeding misinformation to foreign media. Perhaps the following analysis will shed some light?
The grand victor of the elections was the Perussuomalaiset (True Finns) party, which gained a landslide victory - 39 representatives as it previously had 5, almost octupling its representatives.
Finnish Foreign Policy - Studies in Foreign Politics
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BBC admits not writing their news story. They relied on a Finnish party without knowing what kind of axe it had to grind:
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Vastaanottaja xxxx@sci.fi
Lähetetty 20.4.2011 19:36:46
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Thank you for your email.
With the Finnish elections approaching we asked a respected commentator in Finland - Jan Sundberg, a professor of political science in Helsinki, to give us his assessment of the True Finns phenomenon. It is clearly expressed at the top that this article is written by him, not by a BBC journalist. We are satisfied that he has given us his honest analysis, and if he believes there is a xenophobic element to the party then it is legitimate for him to say so. You may be interested to note that this analysis is balanced, in some ways, by our profile of the True Finns' leader: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13111468
We put your points to him.
He said the manifesto implies that the low birth rate is related to that fact that women spend many years in study or in work; that the low birth rate needs addressing; and that it is to be solved by Finns and not by increasing immigration.
We discussed your complaint about language teaching and agreed that we should make clear it is the mandatory teaching of Swedish that is in question. We have changed the article accordingly.
True Finns is the translation widely used by the English-speaking press and the news agencies. The reasoning is partly, perhaps, that the alternative "basic" or "simple" both carry a derogatory tone in English, if not in Finnish. True Finns is thought to be close, in terms of common English use, to the meaning of their Finnish name, if not the closest in terms of literal translation.
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