{"id":345673,"date":"2018-01-27T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-brexit-backing-farage-fan-vying-for-finexit\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T18:27:41","slug":"the-brexit-backing-farage-fan-vying-for-finexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-brexit-backing-farage-fan-vying-for-finexit\/","title":{"rendered":"the Brexit-Backing Farage Fan Vying for Finexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A Finland election candidate is using Nigel Farage\u2019s Brexit example as a blueprint for her own plans to pull her country out of the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Huhtasaari, a 38-year-old former teacher, is trying to bring anti-immigration populist ideas back to mainstream Finnish politics and her campaign for the presidency has seen her reputation soar ahead of the first round of voting on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Finland election brings NEW threat to EU: The Brexit-backing Farage fan vying for Finexit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0E0jYfI79I\">https:\/\/t.co\/0E0jYfI79I<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Defend Europa (@DefendEvropa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefendEvropa\/status\/956898380810280961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her Finns Party has employed tactics from a variety of populist politicians, echoing Donald Trump with her \u201cFinland first\u201d slogan and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who used nationalism as a key theme in her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Her eurosceptic rhetoric sounds a lot like that of former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, even telling of her admiration for the 53-year-old\u2019s Brexit campaign as she told supporters to \u201ctake their country back\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI look at Nigel Farage\u2019s example. It took 17 years, but Brexit came.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t plan to wait that long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She claims the EU has turned \u201cFinland into its province\u201d and has railed against the country\u2019s political elite, who she argues do not represent the working class.<\/p>\n<p>Huhtasaari has also demanded more immigration controls and has campaigned in favour of a burka ban \u2013 a far cry from Finland\u2019s traditionally subdued politics.<\/p>\n<p>She told Politico: \u201cI\u2019m here to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/finland-election-brings-new-threat-to-eu-the-brexit-backing-farage-fan-vying-for-finexit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Finland election candidate is using Nigel Farage\u2019s Brexit example as a blueprint for her own plans to pull her country out of the EU. Laura Huhtasaari, a 38-year-old former teacher, is trying to bring anti-immigration populist ideas back to mainstream Finnish politics and her campaign for the presidency has seen her reputation soar ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}