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Finnish People First campaigning during SuomiAreena

Finnish People First[1] (Шаблон:Lang-fi, Шаблон:Party abbr[2]) was a nationalist political party in Finland. It was founded in 2018[3] and de-registered in 2023 after failing to win seats in two consecutive parliamentary elections.[4] In July 2023, the party filed for bankruptcy and announced its dissolution.[5]

History

Finnish People First originated from the Suomi Ensin ("Finland First") movement that organized a protest camp in central Helsinki in the spring of 2017.[6][7] The movement was led by Marco de Wit,[6] a YouTuber from Tampere.[8][6] The movement splintered into numerous competing factions, one of which evolved into Finnish People First,[6] also led by de Wit.[9] It was registered as an association in November 2017.[10] The association had collected the required 5,000 supporter cards by October 2018, and was admitted to the party register in December that year.[6] Soon after, the party descended into internal strife. A party conference was convened to address the issue, but only resulted in furthering the divides. The conference re-elected Marco De Wit as the party chairman, but some members of the party contested the validity of the conference.[11] Another conference in November 2019 also brought up divisions within the party, when a group of members voted a new chair at a meeting, and after the meeting was partly evicted from the premises by security, the disputed new chair decided the meeting would continue at a neighbouring room with a large part of participants while another disputed chair decided to continue the meeting at the original premises with rest of the participants.[12]

Finnish People First took part in the 2019 parliamentary election. During the campaign the party displayed campaign ads that the police investigated for criminal content.[13] No candidates were elected.[14]

Ideology

Finnish People First was extreme nationalist and anti-immigration.[15][6] It opposed Finland's membership in the European Union and the Eurozone, and would return to its former currency, the Finnish markka.[16] The party opposed NATO and what it called "harmful immigration" and "Islamization".[6] The party has been described as far-right,[17] although the way it described its position on the left–right political spectrum was ambiguous.[16]

Election results

Parliament of Finland

Election Votes % Seats +/– Government
2019 2,366 0.08 Шаблон:Composition bar New Шаблон:No
2023 1,229 0.04 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0 Шаблон:No

Municipal elections

Election Votes % Seats
2021 197 0.0 0

See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:Commons category

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