Finns Party
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Finnish political party
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- PS, Sannf
- Chairperson
- Riikka Purra
- Secretary
- Harri Vuorenpää [ fi ]
- Parliamentary group leader
- Jani Mäkelä
- First deputy chair
- Teemu Keskisarja
- Founders
- Timo Soini , Raimo Vistbacka , Kari Bärlund [ fi ] , Urpo Leppänen [ fi ]
- Founded
- 11 May 1995
- Preceded by
- Finnish Rural Party ( de facto )
- Headquarters
- Yrjönkatu 8–10B, 00120 Helsinki
- 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 ]
- Men s wing
- PerusÄijät [ fi ]
- Worker s wing
- Peruspuurtajat [ fi ]
- Membership 2021
- 15,700
- Ideology
- National conservatism Right-wing populism Euroscepticism
- Political position
- Right-wing to far-right
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Encyclopedic overview
The Finns Party (Finnish: Perussuomalaiset [ˈperusˌsuo̯mɑlɑi̯set], PS; Swedish: Sannfinländarna, Sannf), formerly known as the True Finns, is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
The party achieved its electoral breakthrough in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election, when it won 19.1% of votes, becoming the third largest party in the Parliament of Finland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finns Party” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.