Freedom Alliance (Finland)

Foreign Policy

The Freedom Alliance advocates for Finland to leave the European Union and condemns the EU as being anti-democratic, globalist and elitist.^[11] They are also against NATO and the United States, proclaiming that cooperation with the U.S. has turned Finland into a satellite state.^[12][13] The party is opposed to transatlanticism, instead advocating for the return of the Paasikivi–Kekkonen doctrine.^[14] Despite opposition to the European Union, they support European and international cooperation.^[15]

The party harbours conspirational ideology, including denying the existence of climate change, with claims that the European Union is "force-feeding harmful green ideology, which the Finnish MEPs cast their green plagues on the Finnish people".^[16] They are against what they describe as the "neoliberal New World Order", and that the "EU-virus" is promoting mass immigration, gender diversity, and "men who give birth".^[17][18]

The Freedom Alliance is against sanctions on the Russian Federation for their invasion of Ukraine, stating them to be "hypocritical, illogical and emotional".^[19] The party believes that Ukraine is a client state of the United States, and that Ukraine is oppressing its Russian-speaking population, suppressing freedom of speech and limiting citizens' political power.^[20][21]

Political programs

The Freedom Alliance describes itself as a individualist and localist party.^[22] The party is in favour of what it describes as "bringing back" freedom of speech, and the promotes classical liberalism in relation to society, stating the need for policies such as freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, right to ownership of property, freedom of enterprise, freedom of religion, freedom of political association, freedom to choose public healthcare providers and bodily integrity. The party also supports the right to privacy, opposing the proposal of a "European Digital Identity".^[15] Their policies for healthcareinclude free health check-ups for unemployed jobseekers and investment into services for the elderly and caregivers.^[15] The party promotes direct democracy after ensuring education regarding state affairs and with particular emphasis on the Constitution of Finland.^[23]

The party supports abolishing mandatory Swedish language education in schools, citing freedom of choice in language learning. They propose that Finland is in fact a trilingual country, including Saami alongside the existing national languages, Finnish and Swedish, and that people are entitled to services in all three languages.^[24]

The party seeks to end work-based immigration, but allow humanitarian immigrants and asylum seekers only. The party supports a mass deportation of illegal immigrants and re-examining the application of all previously approved refugees.^[25] They also oppose affirmative action, and desire to "rationalize" violation of religious peace [fi] existing laws, as well as remove racial incitement from the criminal code.^[15]

The Freedom Alliance's economicpolicies are mainly Eurosceptic. They support the reinstatement of the markka as Finland's currency to promote national economic growth^[26] promote self-sufficiency and to maintain the welfare state, which they claim is incompatible with the European Union. They also support independent free trade separate from the European Union. The party also proposes lowering value-added tax (VAT) to 15 percent, lower taxation of domestic food and food production, the expansion of mining jobs, self-sufficiency in relation to agriculture and energy and renewal of the pension insurance system. ^[15]

Parliament of Finland

Municipal elections

European Parliament