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| Abbreviation | Liik RN |
| Chairperson | Harry Harkimo |
| Secretary | Petteri Redsven |
| General Secretary | Iina Ilmarinen |
| Parliamentary group leader | Harry Harkimo |
| Deputy chair | Panu Peitsaro |
| Founders | Harry Harkimo Mikael Jungner Alex Nieminen [fi] Helene Auramo Karoliina Kähönen Sarian Antila Tuomas Enbuske |
| Founded | 18 April 2018 (2018-04-18) |
| Split from | National Coalition Party |
| Headquarters | Simonkatu 2B, 00100Helsinki |
| Youth wing | Liike Nyt Nuoret [fi] |
| Women's wing | Liikkeen Naiset [fi] |
| Membership(2018) | 8,000 |
| Ideology | Economic liberalism Direct democracy Soft Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | Non-Inscrits (since 2019) Five Star Direct Democracy (2019) |
| Colors | Fuchsia |
| Eduskunta | 1 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 15 |
| Municipalities | 49 / 8,859 |
| County seats | 20 / 1,379 |
| Website | |
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Movement Now[2] (MN;Finnish:Liike Nyt[ˈliːkenyt],Liik;Swedish:Rörelse Nu,RN) is aneconomically liberalpolitical party inFinland.[3]
It was founded by then-National Coalition Party (NCP)member of parliamentHarry Hjallis Harkimo and six other people as apolitical movement. The movement was registered as a party on 14 November 2019.[4] It is positioned on thecentre-right of the political spectrum.[5] Among young people this party is 20 times more popular than among the general population.[6]
On 19 April 2018,member of parliamentHarry Harkimo announced that he would resign from his party, theNational Coalition Party. On 21 April, he announced that he had founded a political movement of his own called Movement Now.[7] The movement had been founded by him and seven others and registered with theFinnish Patent and Registration Office [fi] one day before Harkimo's resignation from the NCP.[8] The seven founding members are Harkimo, formerSDP party secretaryMikael Jungner,Alex Nieminen [fi], Helene Auramo, Karoliina Kähönen, Sarian Antila, andTuomas Enbuske.[9]
Harkimo subsequently formed a one-manparliamentary group,[10] theMovement Now parliamentary group [fi], in theParliament of Finland.[11] On 21 January 2019, an MP of theBlue Reform and former Speaker of the Parliament of FinlandMaria Lohela announced that she would leave the Blue Reform in order to join Liike Nyt's parliamentary group.[12] In addition to the Parliament, the movement has gained members in municipalities. The group Parempi Heinola in the city assembly ofHeinola joined Liike Nyt. With its eight members out of a total of 43, the movement is the largest in Heinola.[13][14] A similar association with the Uusi Jämsä group ofJämsä was agreed upon in August 2018. Uusi Jämsä was the third largest group in the city council when joining the movement with its six members.[15]
In the2019 Finnish parliamentary election, Harkimo was elected to the parliament as the sole representative from Movement Now.[16] 115 candidates stood for election, short of the movement's target of 150.[17] Besides Harkimo, candidates included another founder of the party Auramo, and the former'sparliamentary assistant [fi] Mirita Saxberg.[18] Because the movement was not a registered party, each of its candidates had to gather signatures of at least 100 voters to form aconstituency association [fi].[17] The party used controversialmicrotargeting in its campaign advertising.[19]
In June 2019, Harkimo announced that the Movement Now would start collecting signed support cards in order to become a registered political party.[20] The Ministry of Justice announced on 14 November 2019 that Movement Now had been registered as a political party.[21]
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Thirty core principles were agreed upon by members. Besides these, candidates are not aligned ideologically with the group and are allowed to take independent stances on local issues. Election themes include Baltic Sea clean up and social security for entrepreneurs.[22]
The party defends generally liberal policies. In economics, it supports reducing the corporate tax and what they see as unnecessary regulations on businesses, and in social policy, the party defends legalizing the sale of alcohol in grocery stores.
In international policy, although the party believes that the European Union has been beneficial for Finland in many respects, the Euro currency has not, and that thedebt andmigration crises, along withBrexit, has forced the EU to reconsider in which areas Brussels is needed and where it is not. The party opposes aEuropean State.
It also supports achievingcarbon neutrality by 2045, instead of theMarin government's target of 2035, believing the latter to be unrealistic. The party also supports nuclear power.
The party believes in expanding private health care as a way of reducing queues in public health facilities.
It also believes that Finland should adopt a national D visa entitling skilled migrants to work while at the same time keeping out migrants who would be a burden on society. The party also advocates reforming the asylum system and mandating that immigrants should be integrated so that they become part of Finnish society, and that employment plans should be drawn up for all immigrants over the age of 18. It also believes that all incoming immigrants should prove that they will be active members in Finnish society, and that those who provide false information or committed serious crimes such as terrorism should be deported.
The main six principles of the party are:[23]
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 69,427 | 2.25 | 1 / 200 | New | Opposition |
| 2023 | 74,962 | 2.42 | 1 / 200 |  0 | Opposition |
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9,641 | 0.53 (#10) | 0 / 15 | New | – |
| Election | Councillors | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | 38,943 | 1.6 |
| Election | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| 2024 | Hjallis Harkimo | 17,013 | 0.5 (#9) | Lost | ||
The party's headquarters are on Abrahaminkatu inHelsinki.[24] The party has about 8,000 members,[25] and employs four people full-time.[24] The chairperson of the party is Harry Harkimo.[9]
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