Finnish Government at a Breaking Point

The coalition government in Finland will break up because the new leadership of the Finns party demands that the government should respect the doctrine agreed upon when the government was formed two years ago.

Finnish prime minister Juha Sipilä ( Center party ) and the minister of treasury Petteri Orpo ( National Coalition ) ( in the picture ) have announced that they can not continue to collaborate with the Finns party anymore. The major problem was the Finns party demand to tighten the asylum policy closer to what the EU regulations oblige as agreed two years ago. Finnish asylum policy is the most laxed in Europe and the Finns party demanded this to change so our country would not be more attractive than the likes of Sweden and Germany to economical migrants posing as refugees. 

This was agreed on and put in to the governmental program that is a document that sets out the guide lines for the legislation the coalition government is supposed to introduce. The National Coalition-run ministry of internal affairs chose not to do anything about this and effectively even rejected the Dublin protocoll that the EU countries had been following so far. The Dublin protocoll allowed sending the asylum seekers back to first EU country they set foot or ppossibly to the previous country. In the case of the 2015 migration wave Sweden. A year and a half ago Sweden was organizing public transportation for the mostly Iraqi migrants to the Finnish Border so it would have been perfectly legitimate to send them all back to Sweden and freeze the free movement as many other EU members did. The National Coalition decided not to and the Central party gave them their full support.

The Finns party leadership at the time did not concider it important to challenge the coalition partners on the matter wich the party base saw as betrayal since restricting immigration was the main reason for voting them. The old leadership was ousted two days ago at the Finns party national caucus where the critics of the national immigration policies took full control of the party. The new leader Halla-aho expressed his opinion that the governmental program should be respected and this was too much for the coalition partners. Today the yannounced that the ywill not continue in the goverment with the Finns party. It is still not clear will there be new elections or will the leading Center party try to form a new government possibly with National Coalition, the Green party and the Swedish party. The Green party is proposing new elections and the Swedish party has demanded renegotiating fully the governmental program.