The blue and black movement cannot nominate candidates for the European elections, as it was thrown out of the party register. The movement was about to nominate 20 candidates, but now it will be difficult to get nominated.
The Supreme Administrative Court canceled the registration of the Sinimusta movement as a party on Tuesday, which means that the movement cannot nominate candidates in the spring European elections.
The movement was supposed to submit a candidate application to the constituency board this week, the board confirms. Now it is of no use, because according to the court's decision, the Sinimusta movement does not qualify as a party.
In the European elections, candidates can be nominated by voter associations in addition to parties. Supporters of the Sinimusta movement can still try to get candidates for elections through this second route.
Time however, it is scarce, as candidate applications must be submitted no later than next Tuesday at 4 p.m. In addition, 2,000 signatures are needed behind one candidate, and the same person cannot support several candidates.
The Sinimusta movement lists 20 candidates on its website. If they all want to run, the movement should collect 40,000 signatures in a week.
Campaign manager of the association Terhi Kiemunki says that despite the decision, the association is submitting a candidate application to the election board and that it will leave the matter for it to decide. According to Kiemung's interpretation, the court's decision came late, because the Ministry of Justice should have submitted a list of parties to the election board yesterday before the removal of the Blues.
According to Kiemung, the association does not intend to collect supporter cards for the establishment of voter associations.
Openly racist and the fascist Sinimusta movement applied for registration as a party from the Ministry of Justice in January 2021. The ministry returned the application to the association twice for correction and pointed out, among other things, that the party's general program and rules must not conflict with human rights.
The Ministry of Justice finally accepted the application in the summer of 2022, but applied to the Supreme Administrative Court to overturn its decision after reading the party's new general program. The same entries had been returned to it, which the ministry had not been able to accept.
According to the court, the party's goals are not compatible with basic and human rights and democratic principles. According to the decision, the registration was based on a mistake and had to be canceled in the public interest.
“This shows that our thinking in the spring of 2021 was absolutely right,” says the election manager Atte Jääskeläinen from the Ministry of Justice.
The association can apply for access to the party register again at any time. According to Jääskeläinen, the court decision clarifies the evaluation of applications.
“There are now very clear signs of what the general program should be like and, actually, also of what it should not have.”
Campaign Manager According to Terhi Kiemung, the association plans to apply for the party register again soon.
According to him, the court's decision was a shame for the campaigners.
“From our point of view, these are perhaps the most insignificant elections, because we are trying to leave the EU, which is of course not the EU's decision, but Finland's,” says Kiemunki.
“That in that sense, the European elections are not terribly sad for us now.”
Sinimusta movement has published its own European election program on its website. Among other things, the program opposes immigration and claims that free movement is a threat to “our national existence”.
The program also opposes the criminalization of Holocaust denial and work against anti-Semitism, and calls for ethnic profiling at the Finnish border.
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