Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio is one of the most Islamophobic members of the government. He recently praised US President Donald Trump’s speech at Davos.
Trump’s speech, which received a lot of pushback from European representatives, was good in Tavio’s opinion because a strong America first policy was good for Finland because it aims to do good things like lowering migration.
“I would like Finland to be a strong and united nation,” he was quoted as saying in Yle. “I would like that more than anything else. In my opinion, the direction Finland has been taking for many decades has been quite divisive. Continuing mass immigration and failing to create cultural unity does not help the situation.”
Tavio, who commonly cites the great replacement theory and has no qualms about expressing his hatred for minorities like Muslims, talks about “mass immigration” to Finland even if the country has one of the smallest foreign populations in Europe.
Read the full story (in Finnish) here.
Migrant Tales wrote a rebuttal to a Tavio column in Helsinki Times, but he never cared to reply.
Tavio, and many members of his far-right party, are a warning of where Finland could become and use the same tactics that ICE is using to terrorize migrants. For this reason we must remain vigilant and united.
An op-ed piece published by him in Uusi Suomi highlights what type of country he’d like to have in store for migrants and minorities. He suggested in the op-ed piece that the Finnish Constitution should be amended to give Finns priority over foreigners.
PS Chairperson and Finance Minister Riikka Purra has mentioned the latter a number of times.
In Finland, the PS is the most Trump- and Maga-friendly party.
We got another glimpse of Purra’s two headed monster with the tweet below thanking US Vice President JD Vance for his words, which shocked the audience at the Munich Security Conference with his brutal ideological attack on Europe. He accused Europe of suppressing free speech, fearing voters and failing to stop “illegal” migration.”
Anyone who offers a racist remark about migration is a friend of the PS.
Purra celebrates 1,000 foreign “criminals” being deported. This is the first step because the second step will be to deport and detain, like in the US, undocumented, vulnerable migrants..
