The Blue and White Front () (formerly Freedom Party – Finland's Future) () was an

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political party in

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which was founded in 2009 and dissolved in 2015. It was dissolved in 2015 after it had no elected MPs in two consecutive parliamentary elections.

History

The VP was founded on 4 April 2009. In September 2010, leader of the Finnish People's Blue-Whites in the

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county council, Olavi Mäenpää, joined the VP, and became the party's first city councillor. In November, Turku city councillor Maarit Rostedt of the

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also defected to the VP, as well as former True Finns city councillor Kalevi Satopää in Salo. The party changed its name to the ''Finns Party'' in 2013. The party contested its first election in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election.

Policies

The party called for a ban on the construction of

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s and

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s, removal of beggars from the streets and the reduction of

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. It also opposed

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and the mandatory teaching of Swedish.

Election results

Parliamentary elections

References

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