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       Finland PM pulls plug on coalition in nationalism row
       By: magbytes120 Date: June 12, 2017, 10:05 am
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       Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila says his coalition can no
       longer go on with the Eurosceptic Finns party, after it elected
       an anti-immigration hardliner as leader.
       Jussi Halla-aho has been convicted of hate speech for
       anti-Islamic and anti-Somali comments on his blog.
       His two partners in the ruling coalition said conditions were
       not right to work with the nationalists.
       Opposition parties want a snap election but that is not expected
       at this stage.
       The three-party coalition came to power in 2015, bringing the
       Finns into government for the first time as the second biggest
       party.
       Finns' arguments against immigration
       Who are the nationalist Finns Party?
       Finnish PM denies trying to gag press
       The Finns have seen their support flagging in recent months and
       picked Jussi Halla-aho as new leader at a party congress at the
       weekend.
       He immediately called for a "more aggressive" approach to its
       policies on the EU and immigration. In a Facebook post on
       Monday, he complained that Mr Sipila would not agree to a harder
       stance on immigration policy.
       "The conditions do not exist that allow us to co-operate with
       the Finns led by Halla-aho," the prime minister wrote on Twitter
       on Monday.
       Mr Sipila's Centre party and its National Coalition Party ally
       have begun looking for a new partner to join the government,
       however opposition parties have indicated they want early
       elections.
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