Constitutional Right Party Perustuslaillinen oikeistopuolue Konstitutionella högerpartiet
Abbreviation	POP
Founded	1973
Dissolved	1993
Headquarters	Helsinki
Ideology	Anti-communism Finnish nationalism[1]
Political position	Right-wing tofar-right[A][1]
Politics of Finland Political parties Elections ^ A: The POP was considered part of theradical right, a subset of the far-right which does not oppose democracy.

TheConstitutional Right Party (Finnish:Perustuslaillinen Oikeistopuolue,Swedish:Konstitutionella högerpartiet, from 1973 to 1980Constitutional People's Party (Finnish:Perustuslaillinen Kansanpuolue,Swedish:Konstitutionella Folkpartiet). ) was ananticommunistpolitical party inFinland. The party was founded in 1973 by the parliamentarianMaster in LawGeorg C. Ehrnrooth as an anticommunist split from theSwedish People's Party (SFP).

The party had around 4,000 members.^[2] The party was founded as a response to SFP and the only major right-wing party,National Coalition, backing the re-election of PresidentUrho Kekkonen byemergency law, simply for convenience and despite the lack of any national emergency. Ehrnrooth saw this as a sign ofFinlandization, and held that the constitution was being circumvented and the people left out of the process.

The party contested the1975 parliament election, obtaining 1.6% of the national vote and winning one seat. In the1979 parliament election the party won 1.2% of the votes but no seat.^[2] The most seats the party ever held were two (1973–75 and 1986–87), although in both cases, one seat was gained by a defection.

At the1978 Finnish presidential election, the party supported Ahti Salonen, a social democrat critical of Kekkonen and SDP's support of Kekkonen. At the1982 election, however, the party supportedMauno Koivisto, in order to ensureAhti Karjalainen, whom they regarded as too Soviet-friendly, would not succeed as a 'dark horse'.

Constitutional Right Party rallied every 17 July in a big numbers, as Finland got its Republican-based governmental basic rule in that date in 1919.

Although skinheads in Finland were mostly not involved in parliamentary politics, some sought a serious political outlet and joined the youth wing of the POP. Some of the founders of POP included sympathetic radical nationalists (first chairman of POP Ilpo Järvinen was anSS-Company veteran^[3]), and the only competitors of the POP werePekka Siitoin's illegal extremist militant groups that were either too radical or eccentric.^[4]

POP also supported theAfghan mujahideen in their struggle against the Soviet Union, and there was a Mujahideen delegation in the 1986 POP party congress.^[5]

After the collapse of POP in 1993, city councillor and POP vice-Chairman Matti Järviharju founded the neo-fascistPatriotic People's Movement (1993).^[6]

Constitutional Right Party was the only Finnish political party which openly rallied Finland for joining theEuropean Economic Community in 1988.

• Ilpo Järvinen 1973–1974^[7]
• Georg C. Ehrnrooth 1974–1992^[7][8]
• Erkki Enberg 1992–1993^[8]
• Tapio Väisänen 1993–?^[9]

• Peter Kankkonen
• Panu Toivonen 1982–1990^[10][11]
• Ulla Bogdanoff 1990–?^[10]

• Kullervo Rainio 1978–1980^[12]
• Markku Pietikäinen (1.) 1986–?^[13]
• Tuula Heiman (2.) 1986–?^[13]
• Matti Järviharju 1988–?^[10]
• Pentti Taavitsainen 1990–?^[10]

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