With the forthcoming parliamentary election on 17 April, the increasingly numbers of populistic attacks on the Swedish language, Swedish-speakers, and immigrants, a number of music artists have been brought together by Folktinget (the Swedish Assembly of Finland) in a song for tolerance and openness. Famous names including Geir Rönning, Krista Siegfrieds, André Linman, Elin Blom, Paradise Oskar (who will represent Finland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest) are amongst those who have contributed to the song entitled Vår tid – vårt land.
The song will be released on 11 April and Folktinget hopes that it will be spread widely also via social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Wednesday 6.4.11 at 17:52
jokuvaan
SFP tried to get Paradise Oskar as their(fill-in celebrity) candidate, but he doesnt have time and his values doesnt fully meet with SFP.(language politics included)
SFP having its founding idea roots in year 1870 will face mounting problems to find support in future Finland. I think they have most old voter base after Social democrats.
Thursday 7.4.11 at 10:23
Jonas
What has this got to do with the video? The video is from an initiative of Folktinget not SFP. Hardly surprising he’d be busy, do SFP not realise that the Eurovision Song Contest is barely a month after the election?
SFP has no voters left alive from 1870, shocking stuff. But how is that the Coalition party is about to win the most seats when it can trace its roots back to 1863?