According to news monitored from YLE ( Finland) and the MTV channel, racism continues to be an issue in Finnish politics. The Centre Party leader Jyrki Katainen and Green League Party chair Tarja Cronberg has both called on party leaders to introduce measures in eradicationg racism in Finnish election campaigns.
In an MTV evening talk show, the chairman of the True Finns, Timo Soini was asked what he thinks of some of the racism tones on some of the writings of the election candidates. He revealed that he is not a victim of it, but argued that the issue of immigrants require discussion.
According to YLE he was also asked why the True Finns is fielding candidates who are claiming the right to hang flags bearing the Natzi Swastika or any similar excesses.
The Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen of the Centre Party was also mentioned claiming to have heard racist comments during the course of the campaign.
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