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Finnish People's Blue-whites | |
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| Finnish name | Suomen Kansan Sinivalkoiset |
| Swedish name | Finlands Folkets Blåvita |
| Leader | Olavi Mäenpää |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Dissolved | 2010 |
| Merged into | Blue and White Front |
| Headquarters | Previously inTurku |
| Ideology | Finnishultranationalism Anti-immigration |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Blue andWhite |
| Website | |
| www.kolumbus.fi/sinivalkoiset | |
TheFinnish People's Blue-whites (Finnish:Suomen Kansan Sinivalkoiset, SKS;Swedish:Finlands Folkets Blåvita) was aFinnish political party with anultranationalist agenda, led by the controversial political figureOlavi Mäenpää. It was founded in 1993 asIndependent People's Front (Sitoutumaton kansanrintama), and was known asNational Front (Kansallinen Rintama) from 1997 until 2001. The SKS became a registered political party in 2002 and lost this status in April 2007. In 2010, Mäenpää and his followers joined theFreedom Party and the SKS was dissolved.
In themunicipal election of 2004, the party received 3.6% of all votes inTurku, with Mäenpää getting more votes than any other candidate in the city. The party subsequently attained two seats in the city council, but the holder of the other seat, vice-chairperson Timo "Betoni" Virtanen, was expelled from the party shortly afterwards.
The party's nationwide percentage of votes peaked (0.20%) in the2004 European Parliament election. Well-known candidates were chairperson Mäenpää and Matti Järviharju, who had been the vice-chairperson of theConstitutional Right Party and later became the chairperson of another small party.[1]
| Parliamentary elections | |||
| Year | MPs | Votes | |
| 1995 | 0 | 2,075 | 0.07% |
| 1999 | 0 | 4,853 | 0.18% |
| 2003 | 0 | 4,579 | 0.16% |
| 2007 | 0 | 3,913 | 0.14% |
| Local elections | |||
| Year | Councillors | Votes | |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,189 | 0.14% |
| 2004 | 2 | 3,173 | 0.13% |
| 2008 | 1 | 2,323 | 0.09% |
| European Parliament elections | |||
| Year | MEPs | Votes | |
| 2004 | 0 | 3,248 | 0.20% |