Finnish Interior Minister, Mari Rantanen (PS), is suggesting we'd have "welfare-detectives"
Her reasoning?
The welfare system's own statistics say there's very little fraud/misallocation among those receiving benefits, so the system itself "has to be faulty."
In essence, she wants the state to send authorities to spy on the poor (kinda like how insurance companies do) just for the sake of them being poor.
According to #Yle poll the 4 governing parties have 46,9 % support (We have a majority government tradition).
#NCP falls 2,2 %, #TheFinns 1 %, and the liberal #SPP 0,2 %, which already can be a crucial loss for them in the #EUelections next year - they can loose their only seat.
@anttipeltola out of curiosity, because FI celebrated in my bubble for the "housing first" policy right now: Did the new government keep that policy or scrap it?
So, the speaker of the house ( = puhemies in Finnish) in the Parliament of #Finland - or as we call him: Hate speech man ( = #vihapuhemies) is running for #president next January.
If you don't speak Finnish, but are interested what's going on in #Finland, now when we're having this #conservative#FarRight government, the Finnish Broadcasting Company has #journalists working with other languages, too.
4/X So as you can see these are not individual cases, this is mainstream thinking in #TheFinns party.
Neverthless, the prime minister Petteri #Orpo does not see no problem what so ever in having this kind of a party in our government.
Orpo has already mentioned, that the coverage about minister #Junnila was a reason that he finally changed his mind about him, so it really matters what you do.
5/X And this is also all about #journalism and freedom of the #press.
Already we've seen an episode in which the MP's from #TheFinns -party and #TheCoalitionParty harassed a young #journalist for days, because she wrote a critical column about the Finns party, and, for instance, their will to narrow free media.
The harassment was so bad, that even #IPI condemned it with strong words.