Sat, 05 Oct, 2013 03:09:50 AM FTimes-STT Report, October 5  Finns Party lawmaker James Hirvisaari in parliament on Friday. Photo - Lehtikuva The opposition True Finns (Perussuomalainen) on Friday expelled its party lawmaker James Hirvisaari for the recent activities of his guest in parliament.
The party high-ups accepted the proposal made by the working committee unanimously on Thursday to expel Hirvisaari as he admitted the incident of taking photograph of the friend while posed in a Nazi salute at the Parliament and posting it online later, party sources said.
Some personal activities of the leader also prompted the party high-ups to take such action against him, said sources.
Earlier, in April last year the lawmaker was suspended from the party’s parliamentary group for refusal to terminate an assistant despite making a racist remark.
The assistant, Helena Eronen in her blog suggested that non-Finnish people should wear a Nazi-style arm band so that police can identify them easily.
Helena Eronen, however, was forced to resign following widespread criticism by the people.
In 2010 a Kouvola appeal court upheld a sentence for inciting racial hatred for a blog about immigration in which the MP was found to have committed slander against Muslims, reported Yle.
In other online writings Hirvisaari also commented that rape was a “genetic or cultural characteristic" of certain cultures, the Yle report added.
Earlier, on Thursday the party chief Timo Soini said that he recommended for expulsion of Hirvisaari as he tarnished the image of the party seriously.
“James Hirvisaari is going to be expelled from the party and the parliamentary group as well,” the party chief Timo Soini told STT, adding that the parliamentary group would take final decision in this regard.
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