>>49956064I'd say that True Finns is probably the most divided party in the economic policies. For instance the leader of the parliament group, Sampo Terho, might have very well been the most right-wing (in economic policy) Member of the European Parliament, when he was there. Another very important person in the party, Jussi Halla-aho (the main anti-immigration ideologist in Finland) has stated that he feels himself to be somewhat leftwinger and a supporter of the welfare state, but also notes that politically he would pretty much always side with right-wingers as the leftists are so retarded. He also notes that he's election speeches have all been about immigration and gun laws and that those are his main points.
Then there are of course those who are more on the left side, the president of the party for example isn't really a rightwinger by any means. Then again, he doesn't care about immigration that much either. Would take a long time to explain his political agenda, but maybe sufficient explanation would be that he is a product of populistic movements in Finland that started in 1960s-1970s and that have every now and then gathered a lot of support and he doesn't really have all that much to say, but he is rhetorically one of the best politicians in Finland.
tl;dr, True Finns are very divided party in the economics department and can function pretty well in both right-wing and left-wing governments. This might change though.
The pic I have is made by the biggest newspaper in Finland, HS (Helsingin Sanomat, News of Helsinki). It places the municipal election candidates of each party in a field, where up=conservative values, down=liberal values, left=leftist economic policies, right=rightwing economic policies.
PS=True Finns
Kok=National Coalition
SDP=Social Democratic Party
Vas.=Left-wingers
Vihr.=Green Party
RKP=Swedish People's party
KD=Christian Democrats
Kesk.=Center Party (used to be the Agrarian League and might be better understood with that name
