True Finns right wing?

Submitted by Ugri (Finland), Apr 19, 2011 at 03:20

How the True Finns party can be characterized as right wing ( or even far-right ) is beyond me. Must be something 'lost in translation'. Why on earth did the Jakomäki people in a Helsinki suburb rush to vote for the True Finns? Jakomäki ain't no posh neighborhood.

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