The great Finnish election thread

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Pekka
Well.. swedes finns are large group here in Finland, so I guess they deserve some voice in parliament too. Basicalle they just make sure we stay bi-langual country.

Large and large, five percent. And only a handful of them don't know Finnish.

[Pekka]

Kassi, sure.. I don't agree with forcing everyone to learn Swedish for example. It should encouraged, but NOT forced.

[Stefu]

BTW, the third seat True Finns (Halme's party) got was probably thanks to Halme, too - if you read the link to Halme's discussion forum in Suomithreadi, you noted that Halme advised people living in Uusimaa to vote for Timo Soini, their main candidate there. And True Finns got a seat in Uusimaa.

BTW, we haven't even discussed Mikko Alatalo being elected yet (Foreigners, he's kinda like Finland's Elton John, except straight and rural-kinda-like, if you can imagine such a thing.)

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HAAALMMEE!

Halme is the 2nd in the WHOLE country right now.

[Pekka]

Yep, we are officially a joke now.

[Stefu]

14000 people. 14000 people willing to vote for Tony Halme. And that's just 14000 people in Helsinki.

And you know what? I bet Halme's going to run for President, come 2006.

[Pekka]

Tuome, nope, just in Helsinki area?

[Pekka]

Stefu, but for that, he don't stand a chance. He would have to be so dominating and do good things for Finland for that to happen. Never.

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Tuome, nope, just in Helsinki area?

True, I forgot Tanja Karpela (who is, btw, a major arsehole)

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14000 people. 14000 people willing to vote for Tony Halme. And that's just 14000 people in Helsinki.

16 000.

[Kropotkin]

As I've said before; the politics of Finland has been going downhill since the country's true and magnificent leader (in exile) Comrade O.V. Kuusinen died.

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Comrade O.V. Kuusinen died.

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This is not going downhill. Christians and Swedish PP lost 3 seats, and National Coalition 6 seats.

[Andemagne]

did I mention allready that competition on "social demoncrat youth" website, where you could win a trip to north korea?

[tinyp3nis]

Originally posted by Pekka
But this is interesting..
Fact: Finland was the first country to give women the right to vote
Fact: Finland has the first woman president
.. and it's now very possible we get woman as PM too. We are country lead by women.. God save us

Are those facts? Somehow I remember Finland being second in giving the right to vote, and I have this fuzzy memory of seeing some woman president on television years before we got one.

Oh yeah and way to go Halme. 7 magazine will love this.

[Pekka]

tinyp3nis, don't come here wrecking my fantasies! If you can't back up your claims, then don't bring them at all!