Political scientist Ann-Cathrine Jungar.File Photo- Lehtikuva.
Ann-Cathrine Jungar, a researcher on right wing populism, has expressed surprise at the meagre debate in the country resulting from the recent photo shoot of Perussuomalaiset (Finns Party) MP Olli Immonen with neo-Nazis.
The Swedish Södertörn University researcher would have expected that the Perussuomalaiset and other government parties would not allow contact with the Finnish Resistance Movement (SVL).
“This is a question of Finnish democracy, what is accepted and what the limits are,” Jungar said.
Immonen updated his Facebook page where he posted a photograph posing with members of the right wing extremist group, among others, at the burial site of Eugen Schauman.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, SVL is a revolutionary and militant movement which aims for the creation of a national socialist state by undemocratic means.
