Suomen maaseudun puolue

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Suomen Maaseudun Puolue
Finlands Landsbygdsparti Finnish Rural
Party
Logo of the SMP
Party leader Raimo Vistbacka (1992-1995)
Secretary General Timo Soini (1992–1995)
founding 1959
resolution 1995
Headquarters Helsinki
Alignment Peasant party , populism
Colours) blue

Suomen maaseudun puolue (abbreviation SMP, translated inconsistently into German: Finnish Peasant Party , Agrarian Party, Rural People's Party) was a Finnish populist party .

history

The peasant party developed in 1959 from a splinter group of the rural league ( Maalaisliitto ) and was identified primarily with its chairman Veikko Vennamo , a former rural league deputy who had spoken out vehemently against the party leader Urho Kekkonen because he was too Soviet-friendly. Vennamo was chairman of the SMP from 1959 to 1979. The organization was understood as a protest party that promised to stand up for the discontented “common people” who had been forgotten by the established parties. In particular, economically impoverished small farmers who had lost their land after the territorial cession after the Continuation War and the subsequent resettlement were a central target group of the party.

The party received votes especially in the agrarian and structurally weak central and northern Finland. In 1970 she achieved her best election result with over 10 percent. After a poor performance in the local elections in 1975, six of the 18 MPs of the SMP founded the Party of the Unity of the Finnish People , which was represented by only one representative after the 1975 elections. The party lost its importance in the early 1990s and disbanded in 1995. The "True Finns" (Perussuomalaiset) are considered a successor party to the Peasant Party.

Leadership politician

Party leader

General Secretaries

Election results

Parliamentary elections

year MPs be right percent
1962 0 49,773 2.2
1966 1 24,351 1.0
1970 18th 265,939 10.5
1972 18th 236.206 9.2
1975 2 98,815 3.6
1979 7th 132,457 4.6
1983 17th 288.711 9.7
1987 9 181.938 6.3
1991 7th 132.133 4.9
1995 1 36,185 1.3

Local elections

year Local representatives be right percent
1960 359 52,524 2.7
1964 ? 30,683 1.4
1968 910 165.139 7.3
1972 646 125,061 5.0
1976 245 56.091 2.1
1980 348 83,265 3.0
1984 639 142,474 5.3
1988 453 95,258 3.6
1992 354 64,880 2.4

Presidential election

year candidate electors be right percent
1968 Veikko Vennamo 33 231.282 11.4
1978 Veikko Vennamo 10 114,488 4.7
1982 Veikko Vennamo 1 71,947 2.3
1988 - ² 7th 120.043 4.0

² Support for the candidacy of Mauno Koivisto (Social Democrats)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anders Widfeldt: “A fourth phase of the extreme right? Nordic immigration-critical parties in a comparative context ”. In: NORDEUROPAforum (2010: 1/2), 7–31, http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2010-1/widfeldt-anders-7/XML/
  2. ↑ Anders Widfeldt: “A fourth phase of the extreme right? Nordic immigration-critical parties in a comparative context ”. In: NORDEUROPAforum (2010: 1/2), 7–31, http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2010-1/widfeldt-anders-7/XML/
  3. ↑ Finnish Postage Stamps - Approaching Europe (1972 - 1994) Mathias Kalle Dalheimer & Gert WF Murmann (November 20, 2008)