Timo Soini Raimo Vistbacka Kari Bärlund [fi] Urpo Leppänen [fi]
Founded
11 May 1995
Preceded by
Finnish Rural Party (de facto)
Headquarters
Yrjönkatu 8-10 B, 00120 Helsinki[1]
Newspaper
Perussuomalainen (magazine) [fi] Suomen Uutiset [fi]
Think tank
Suomen Perusta [fi]
Youth wing
Finns Party Youth (2006–2020) The Finns Party Youth [fi] (2020–)
Women's wing
Finns Party Women [fi][2]
Worker’s wing
Peruspuurtajat [fi]
Membership (2021)
15,700[3]
Ideology
National conservatism
Right-wing populism
Political position
Right-wing to far-right
European Parliament group
European Conservatives and Reformists
Nordic affiliation
Nordic Freedom
Colours
Gold
Blue
White
Eduskunta
46 / 200
European Parliament
2 / 14
Municipalities
1,351 / 8,859
County seats
156 / 1,379
Website
www.perussuomalaiset.fi
Politics of Finland
Political parties
Elections
The Finns Party,[4][5][6] formerly known as the True Finns (Finnish: Perussuomalaiset, PS; Swedish: Sannfinländarna, Sannf),[10] is a right-wing populist political party in Finland.[11] It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party. The party is currently a participant in the Government of Petteri Orpo, holding seven ministerial portfolios.
The party achieved its electoral breakthrough in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election, when it won 19.1% of votes,[12] becoming the third largest party in the Parliament of Finland.[13] In the 2015 election the party got 17.7% of the votes, making it the parliament's second-largest political party.[14] The party was in opposition for the first 20 years of its existence. In 2015, it joined the coalition government formed by Prime Minister Juha Sipilä. Following a 2017 split, over half of the party's MPs left the parliamentary group and were subsequently expelled from their party membership. This defector group, Blue Reform, continued to support the government coalition, while the Finns Party went into opposition. The party, having been reduced to 17 seats after the split, increased its representation to 39 seats in the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election, while Blue Reform failed to win any seats. During the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election, the Finns Party finished in second place and recorded their strongest result, 46 seats, since the party's founding.
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^"NYTKIS – The Coalition of Finnish Women´s Associations". The Coalition of Finnish Women´s Associations. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
^Neihum, Alec (27 July 2021). "Tällaisia ovat suurimpien puolueiden jäsenet: MTV Uutiset selvitti iät ja sukupuolijakauman – keskustalla, SDP:llä ja vihreillä selvät erityispiirteensä". MTV Uutiset (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 February 2022.
^"Finns Party – In English – Perussuomalaiset". Perussuomalaiset.fi. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
^"Finns Party ponders power". Yle Uutiset. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
^ ab"The parliamentary groups". eduskunta.fi. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
^ abYle Uutiset: "True Finns" name their party "The Finns", retrieved 20 February 2024
^"Perussuomalaiset – True Finns". Archived from the original on 9 December 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
^"Perussuomalaiset otti käyttöön englanninkielisen nimen". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). STT. 21 August 2011. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014.
^The party did not have an official English name until 2011,[7] but the name 'True Finns' was originally used by the party itself[8] and is still occasionally used by the international media. The party's Finnish name has always remained the same and Perussuomalaiset would effectively translate as 'Ordinary Finns', 'Regular Finns' or 'Typical Finns'. In August 2011, the party began using 'The Finns' as an official English name – the party chairman at the time, Timo Soini, said that the new name captured the image of the movement as a party of ordinary Finns.[7][9] However, the party's and the Finnish parliament's English-language websites use the less confusing name, the 'Finns Party'.[6]
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^"Helsingin Sanomat, April 18, 2011, 'SUNDAY EVENING : ELECTION SPECIAL'". Hs.fi. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
^Yle Uutiset: General Elections 2011 in Finland – Result by party "General Elections 2011 in Finland – Result by party". 20 April 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
^"Parliamentary Elections 2015 in Finland". Parliamentary Elections 2015 in Finland.
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15,700[3]