Suunnitelmat kansalaisuuslain tiukentamiseksi paljastavat pääministeri Petteri Orpon hallituksen huomattavan historiallisen muistinmenetyksen. Tiesittekö, että Suomi kielsi naisilta, joiden ylpeästi väitetään saaneen ensimmäisenä Euroopassa äänioikeuden, oikeuden antaa kansalaisuus lapsilleen? Vain miehellä oli tällainen oikeus ja etuoikeus. Vuonna 1984, noin 66 vuotta itsenäistymisen jälkeen, naiset saivat vihdoin oikeuden antaa kansalaisuuden lapsilleen jus sanguinis -periaatteen mukaisesti. Lähde: Valtionuevosto Lain…
Month: May 2024
The Finnish government’s new citizenship law is a house of mirrors
Plans to tighten the citizenship law expose a remarkable case of historic amnesia of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government. Did you know that Finland denied women, whom they proudly claim were the first to get suffrage rights in Europe, the right to give citizenship to their children? It was only the man who had such…
MP Heikki Vestman is one of the main anti-immigration ideologues of the National Coalition Party of Finland
National Coalition Party (NCP) MP and chairperson of the constitutional committee, Heikki Vestman, is making a name for himself by promoting xenophobia. In a previous post, Migrant Tales published how Vestman was using Islamophobia and bullying tactics to gain attention and power. His rhetoric has turned him into one of the main anti-immigration ideologues of…
The pushback law of the Finnish government will fail and be a farce
A question to Interior Minister Mari Rantanen and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo: Is the main motivation of the pushback law to strengthen the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* policy of zero asylum seekers? Why are asylum seekers coming from Russia such a threat to Finland’s internal security? The fact that a total of 1,271 asylum seekers have come…