The Finnish Parliament gave its support to Vilhelm Junnila, Minister of Economic Affairs of Basic Finns, who joked about the Nazis.
Economy Minister accused of Nazi sympathies Vilhelm Junnila (ps.) received the confidence of the parliament with 95–86 votes on Wednesday.
Junnila was demanded to resign because she had spoken about the Nazis in a humorous way and participated, among other things, in an event with links to the extreme right.
listed the most recent cases from abroad in which a politician has had to resign because of his Nazi speeches.
The Spanish referee criticized his opponent as a Nazi Jew
Seville Regional Director of the Socialist Workers Party of Spain Amparo Rubiales resigned from his post in early June shortly after he had called a parliamentarian from a rival party a “Nazi Jew”.
Rubiales had commented on Twitter Elias Bendedon an interview in which he had criticized Spain’s socialist president Pedro Sánchez.
– This is the real speech of a Nazi Jew, Rubiales tweeted.
After the uproar over the comment, Rubiales clarified that he has nothing against Jews and a lot against Nazis.
A Stockholm city councilor criticizes Anne Frank
Last fall, the Sweden Democrats dismissed the city councilor from Stockholm Rebecka Fallenkvistwho had criticized being murdered in a Nazi concentration camp on social media Anne Frank.
According to the Swedish judge, Frank’s famous diary gave an obscene impression of its author.
The vision sparked a lot of public debate, and shortly after Fallenkvist was fired as host of the Sweden Democrats’ YouTube channel, he switched to a less visible role in the party’s financial department.
A candidate writing poetry about Hitler on the ice shelf in New Zealand
In New Zealand, a candidate for the lower house of the parliament Stephen Jack withdrew from the competition in April when a poem he had published online became public.
In a verse he wrote himself, the sheep and cattle farmer compared the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Labor Party Jacinda Ardern to the leader of Nazi Germany to Adolf Hitler.
In Austria, a songbook joking about the Holocaust led to the decision-maker’s resignation
In January 2018, the local leader of the Austrian Freedom Party Udo Landbauer resigned from all his political positions.
Landbauer, who was influential in the politics of the state of Lower Austria, came under public criticism when a local newspaper reported that he was part of a student fraternity that joked about the Nazis.
The group had previously distributed a songbook that joked about killing Jews.