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Miss Finland scandal: Finnish PM apologises to East Asia for MPs’ ‘racist’ gestures
PM Petteri Orpo offers regrets to Japan, China and South Korea after MPs mimic ousted beauty queen Sarah Dzafce’s offensive squinting gesture
s prime minister apologised on Wednesday to citizens of Japan, China and South Korea after MPs sparked outrage by posting pictures of themselves making derogatory squinting gestures.
The parliamentarians from the populist Finns Party, which is part of the right-wing coalition government, posted images on social media where they pulled back the corners of their eyes – widely seen as a racist gesture targeting East Asian people.
They claimed to have shared the pictures in support of the 2025 Miss Finland, Sarah Dzafce, who for posting a similar picture on in November.
“I offer my sincere apologies for the recent offensive social media posts done by individual MPs,” Prime Minister Petteri Orpo was quoted as saying in statements on the social media accounts of Finland’s embassies in , and .
“These posts do not reflect Finland’s values of equality and inclusion,” the statement said, adding that “racism and discrimination have no place in Finnish society.”
Public broadcaster Yle reported that a Finnish TV production company had put collaborative projects in Japan on hold and Finnish airline Finnair also said their brand had been negatively impacted.
The prime minister’s office said he wanted to stress that the trio’s behaviour “does not represent Finland’s position”.
The parliamentarians – MPs Kaisa Garedew and Juho Eerola and MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen – have reacted differently to the controversy.
While Eerola apologised and Tynkkynen said the gesture was not meant to hurt anyone’s feelings, Garedew told local media she did not believe she needed to say sorry.
The Finns Party’s parliamentary group is due to meet on Thursday to discuss potential sanctions against the MPs.
Finland’s government, which came into power in 2023, has been rocked by several incidents where Finns Party members have made incendiary comments.
In August, another Finns Party MP said immigrants were turning Finland into “a pigsty”.
Seems recently articles with this kind of headlines are appearing?
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This is what I don’t get, in an era of Anglo American retrenchment and despite the rise of MAGA, do these Finns really believe the white western world is resurgent? Can they not read the room?
At least Sweden did something right otherwise their ppl wouldn’t have been included in the visa free program with China. Finally, the apology from the PM means jack all if he fails to properly discipline his own party members, coalition government or not.
EVs in America are dead, simple as that
Trump has retarded any progress/inroads made. Since his policy was set so firmly against EVs, companies responded in the only logical way, by dispensing with EV plans.
Europe is not sure how to proceed as the people are still too concerned over climate change to fully abandon EV mandates, so we see a lot of fence sitting/hands in pockets.
I have been saying for a while that USA will likely end up like a Cuba (pre 2020, even Cuba has been importing Chinese EVs now). Basically all ICE cars, noisy, loud, smelly, etc.
They already made a mild decision a couple days ago. Without cheap Russian energy. European products are simply uncompetitive.
Who is he/she and why should we care? Stop posting random useless shits.
In4ser
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Another factor not mentioned is AI. EVs are plugged into the power grid which is also needed by power hungry GPUs on an already limited availability of energy. Gotta pay off his SV donor base.