Center Party Chairperson Antti Kaikkonen gave a long interview on Saturday’s Ykkösaamu. Apart from all his views about the government’s program to bring growth during extreme austerity, Kaikkonen is asked about labor migration at the end of the interview.
He said Finland needs labor migrants. He said, “We don’t need criminals, we don’t want bums.”
This is an odd statement coming from a politician who got in 2013 a suspended prison sentence in a financing scandal.
Finland’s memory is short and selective.
YLE’s Ykkösaamu: “We don’t need criminals, we don’t want bums,” said Antti Kaikkonen.
Tweets @reija_harkonen: “[Center Party Chairperson Antti] Kaikkonen has been sentenced to prison for abuse of a position of trust. Now he is using the trust of the Center Party’s members by publicly moving the party into the mainstream racist fold.