Helvetin Pastori/Pastor of Hell

Well, it's been a while since I last posted anything. So, where have I been? Well, apart from school, I recently got a part time job, which has limited my already limited free time even more. I was also sick for a week, which is something that normally doesn't happen to me. So quite simply, I haven't had the time, the energy or the motivation to really focus on writing anything.   That being said, I'm back and as the title suggests, there have been some interesting developments in Finnish politics, which I've been planning to cover for a while. First, let's start with Paavo Väyrynen. You may remember that he was one of the candidates in the recent presidential election, and that in my posts about the election, I gave him some special attention (links at the end).  The reason is pretty much the outcome of the election. Since it was pretty clear from the beginning that president Sauli Niinistö would win re-election, the election lacked that sense of heightened e...

Okay, I know I promised that I would continue with part two of the conscription debate next, but recent developments in Finnish politics are just something I have to write about. While in Finland we read about American politics on pretty much a daily basis, Finnish politics on the other hand, are rarely talked about abroad. This is a great pity as last summer there was bit of drama when our government nearly fell, because of one the coalition partners elected new leadership. This led to prime minister Juha Sipilä to announce that he would deliver his letter of resignation to the president, but literally at the last minute something happened, which allowed his cabinet to stay intact. Some backstory. In the 2015 parliamentary election, the Center Party won in a pretty spectacular fashion, which led to their leader Juha Sipilä to become prime minister. He then formed a governing coalition with the National Coalition and the Finns Party. The Finns Party had become one of the bigges...