Finland’s populist leader faces controversy
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HELSINKI — The drizzle makes for a miserable, icy morning in the western Finnish industrial town of Pori, and yet at least 50 people — a crowd by local standards — are riveted by Timo Soini, the colourful and controversial head of the populist True Finns party.
The rotund party chairman tells a joke from his modest stage and the onlookers laugh despite the chill.
“He draws a crowd like flypaper catches flies,” says 54-year-old nurse Tarja Silfferi, who has come to watch the commotion even though she plans to support the leftwing Social Democrats in the Nordic country’s April 17 elections..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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