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Current Finnish situation: Total number of MEPs: 13. Way of electing: All of country is one district and the MEPs, like in pretty much all other Finnish elections (except President), are chosen on totally open lists - you vote for a candidate, all the candidate votes for each party are pooled together to determine the party vote and the number of individual votes each candidate gets determines their place on the list. As a result, you can never be completely sure who gets elected before the election happens. Latest poll: http://yle.fi/uutiset/keskustan_eurovaalikannatus_romahti/7146965 PARTIES: National Coalition, KOK (EPP). Current number of MEPs 3, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 4. Used to be a conservative party, now mostly neoliberal. Loves EU like a child loves cake. Finland's ruling party. Current MEPs are notorious environment-hater and barf-bag collector Eija-Riitta Korhola, all-around shithead Petri Sarvamaa and social-liberal Sirpa Pietikäinen who is actually not a bad politician in many ways and what is she doing in this horrible party anyway? All of them are also running this time around, though at least one of them is probably bound to be replaced by federalist super-squirrel Alexander Stubb or regional policy minister Henna Virkkunen who is angling to get into Brussels after her flagship municipal reform project failed. Centre, KESK (ALDE). Current number of MEPs 3, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 3. Centrist party whose main agenda is subsidising agriculture and sparsely-populated areas. Makes perfect sense that they're in agricultural-subsidy-hating ALDE, doesn't it? Finland's smaller and less crazy opposition party. Current MEPs are relatively non-offensive (on Centre scale) former PM Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Riikka Pakarinen who has spent a large part of her MEP time on maternal leave, and awful fundamentalist Hannu Takkula. Jäätteenmäki and Takkula are running again, as are austerity king Olli Rehn, notoriously euroskeptic long-time politician Paavo Väyrynen and Mikael Pentikäinen, a right-wing former editor-in-chief of Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's biggest newspaper. Having one of the best-known euroskeptics in Finland (Väyrynen) running at the same time as one of the best-known euro-enthusiasts (Rehn) has of course provided unending hilarity as Centre tries to pretend these guys are not all that far apart from each other really. The Finns, PS (EFD). Current number of MEPs 1, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 2. A TOTALLY NOT RACIST populist party that is also euroskeptic, expect they don't even bother demanding that Finland quits EU or the Eurozone because obviously they are going to fall any moment now anyway. Finland's larger and crazier opposition party. Current MEP is slick nationalist Sampo Terho, other possibilities are Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner whose job (as the former leader of TF parliamentary group) was trying to explain all the stupid poo poo all their other MPs did, Finland's chief NOT-RACIST "immigration critic" Jussi Halla-aho and former Christian Democrats leader Toimi Kankaanniemi. Incidentally, if EFD breaks up, TFs have said they won't be joining Le Pen/Wilders group, though Halla-aho has flirted with the idea to some degree. TF leader Timo Soini actually called Wilders a closet homosexual in his recent new book, lmao Social Democrats, SDP (SD). Current number of MEPs 2, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 2. Typical third-wayite social democrats. The current number 2 party in the Finnish government. Current MEPs are Liisa Jaakonsaari, a rather boilerplate Social Democrat apart from her total love for NATO, and embarrassing celebrity priest Mitro Repo. Social Democrats haven't announced a full list yet so we don't know who all are competing, but at least the Blairite lizard Mikael Jungner, the only man in Finland without an ideological Social-Democratic bone in his body, is going to be a strong contender. Greens, VIHR (EG/EFA). Current number of MEPs 2, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 1. One of the most realo Green parties in Europe, often more interested in social liberalism than those dreary old environment-related things. A minor party in the Finnish government. Current MEPs are centrist Tarja Cronberg and former Stalinist Satu Hassi who has actually achieved some pretty good things for the environment in the EP and is thus hated by all the good and proper car-driving meat-eating newspaper comment section paragons with the hatred of a thousand nuclear plants. Hassi is not running and there's going to be a pretty tough contest for their (probably) single seat, including Putin-hating former MEP Heidi Hautala, slick liberal Oras Tynkkynen, former party leader Anni Sinnemäki, nerd icon Jyrki Kasvi and Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto, a representative of the party's left wing (such as one might say there is one...) Left Alliance, VAS (GUE/NGL) Current number of MEPs 0, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 1. Finland's (relatively moderate, all things considering) far-left party. Used to be a minor party in the Finnish government because in Finland there's nothing strange about a former communist party sitting in government with EPP neoliberals, resigned from the government a few weeks ago. Currently is the only parliamentary party without a MEP, because the crusty old ex-communists who make up a large part of Left Alliance's electorate ain't gonna vote in no capitalist EU elections. Contenders for the probable MEP place include moderate former Transportation Minister Merja Kyllönen, parliamentary group leader and notorious army-hater Annika Lapintie, environmentalist celebrity MP Silvia Modig and Left Youth leader Li Andersson, who I'm personally campaigning for and will be voting. Swedish People's Party, SFP/RKP (ALDE). Current number of MEPs 1, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 0. Unlike Centre, SFP is actually reliably liberal, but all their other agendas pale when it comes to the most important one, getting as much goodies for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority as possible. A minor party in the Finnish government, as they always are. Their current MEP is Nils Torvalds, father of Linus Torvalds. If they manage to get a MEP, an obvious contender is Jörn Donner, celebrity film director and one of the most easily imitable people in Finland. Christian Democrats, KD (EPP). Current number of MEPs 1, the number of MEPs if the latest poll holds 0. Love Jesus and don't love gays or abortions all that much, though even Jesus couldn't probably save their EP seat. A minor party in the Finnish government. Current MEP is former speedwalking champion Sari Essayah, the other main contender (if they manage to get a seat) is party leader and Internal Affairs Minister Päivi Räsänen, the only other Christian Democrat politician left that anyone even knows. Pirate Party, Communist Party, Change 2011, Independence Party and Blue-White Front are also competing. They don't have a chance in hell. Stefu fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Junior G-man posted:You can't! Um no SP is a part of GUE/NGL. http://www.guengl.eu/people/meps
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The Tories: basically a right-wing populist party, expect without populism
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Korwin-Mikke is like if someone had actually given one of those Dark Enlightment neoreactionaries some political power.
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LemonDrizzle posted:Both how bad the interviewer is and how Varoufakis clearly doesn't know how to deal with a hostile interviewer. He's trying to treat it like an academic - funny little digressions, longwinded explanations and whatnot - when he needed to be far more like a regular politician. He and Syriza more generally also need to get a lot better at dealing with the media and getting their message across because right now they're failing horribly. For example, he says his comments about the Troika were misinterpreted and that Greece is happy to deal with the Troika, it just doesn't want to deal with a specific subgroup of Troika auditors charged with overseeing the progress of the mandated reforms. Here are a selection of headlines: Yes clearly if the new Greek government just had a better message control the media wouldn't be so hostile. Honest! YF-23 posted:The only thing he said that I could call potentially confusing is his non-opposition to the Port of Piraeus privatisation - which is a personal opinion and he's not the minister responsible for that, which is something he wasn't clear on, but I give it a pass because of the conditions of the interview. I thought that he meant that the new gov is not absolutely opposed to privatizations as a whole, but the problem with Port of Piraeus privatization is that it's a firesale. Stefu fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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kalstrams posted:I'm not sure if this the right thread, but I'll ask anyway. I had an argument yesterday with a person who claimed that Greek government from recent is comprised of literal marxists/Bolseviks and that they have announced plans to withdraw from EU and NATO very soon, give Russians military bases on Cyprus, and that they have signed some friendship and cooperation pact with Russia very recently. Since that was neither time nor place to It's pretty interesting that now SYRIZA is being blamed for plans made by another, right-wing, EPP member government (Cyprus). Greeks (and Greek-speaking Cypriots) are pretty predisposed towards being friendly with Russia; it's worth pointing out that the two persons who have been the target of most accusations of Russophilia (Kotzias and Kammenos) were, just a few years ago, members of PASOK and ND respectively, and neither of them is currently a member of SYRIZA. Stefu fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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and check sources and other stuff. or to argue in that fashion, can someone tell me how much if it is close to actual situation?
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Beware of the man of the one poll. The same pollster has consistently given Podemos a lower rating than most other pollsters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Spanish_general_election,_2015
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