Anti-racism campaign|Riikka Purra blames the media for the fact that people may have had the wrong idea of the position of basic Finns on the anti-racism campaign.
Basic Finns chairman Riikka Purra highlights the difference between the government’s so-called racism statement and the anti-racism campaign. According to Purra, Perussuomalaiset is involved in the former, but hardly in the latter.
Prime minister Petteri Orpo (kok) announced the government’s anti-racism campaign on Tuesday. He also hoped that the parties would join the campaign. Purra stated at a press conference on Tuesday that he does not believe that basic Finns will participate in the campaign.
The news about Purra’s comment caused consternation among others in the government partner Rkp and the opposition. The chairman of the Rkp’s parliamentary group Otto Andersson according to him, it would be strange that the ruling party would not have committed to the campaign.
Purra continued the conversation on Wednesday morning in the message service X. According to him, Perussuomalaiset is committed to the statement and program of measures approved last year, just like the other three government parties.
The anti-racism campaign that is now being discussed was part of the program of measures.
“It was about whether the party will do the rp [rekisteröity puolue] in the party board, a separate decision on commitment to the campaign. It hardly does. As agreed, the campaign will be implemented together with labor market organizations, sports, cultural and civic organizations,” says Purra.
Purra says that by reading the news, people may have had the wrong idea about the subject. According to him, “a part of the media has a strong desire to be an independent party to politics and make up issues in their own way”.
Thus the processing of the case proceeded on Tuesday in Kouvola.
Chairman of the parliamentary group of Basic Finns Jani Mäkelä said in his speech at the beginning of the meeting that a year ago, during the government’s racist outcry, Perusfuomalaiset was “softened for no reason”. According to Mäkelä, the criticism was done by doing and machined from abroad, and the goal was to overthrow the government and get the Basic Finns out of power.
“The consequences are still being borne in the form of various posing campaigns,” Mäkelä said in his speech.
At the media conference held afterwards, Mäkela was asked if he meant the campaign launched by Orpo on the same day. Mäkelä did not give a direct answer to the question.
“Perhaps the situation is best reflected by the fact that when one large trade union has resigned from that campaign, and the opposition party is considering whether it makes sense to participate in the campaign, it reflects the situation that it does not seem very genuine. Different parties question it from different points of view before it has been started,” Mäkelä answered.
The trade unions JHL and the opposition Greens had by then had time to criticize the campaign. According to JHL, the campaign is a “brazen cover-up for the government’s policy that undermines equality”.
The greens Fatim Diarra on the other hand, criticized the campaign as being “blatantly contradictory” right up to its name, because “racist and human rights oppressive language has been repeatedly cultivated from the ranks of the government, but not a single concrete action to eradicate racism has been seen so far”.
After Mäkelä’s answer, the party secretary of the Basic Finns Harri Vuorenpää announced that the party will still make a separate decision on whether it will participate in the campaign as a party.
After Vuorenpää, Purra wanted to complete the answer and commented on the matter verbatim as follows:
“Of course, the State Council is committed to its own campaign, but the idea that the party should go into this separately, as far as I know basic Finns, I don’t think that we will go into this. But the decision will be made officially.”
Racism the background of the actions against it is from last summer, when old writings of fundamental Finnish ministers became public. The governing party Rkp took a particularly negative view of them.
Last summer, we discussed especially the short-term Minister of Economy Vilhelm Junnilan (ps), the new Minister of Economy appointed in his place by Wille Rydman (ps) and Purra’s previous activities.
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