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Mikael Lith wrote that, in his opinion, the center of Helsinki has become more unpleasant in recent years, especially on weekend evenings. He described loud and swearing groups of people, individuals under the influence of substances, and rundown places. According to Lith, there was an increasing need for police and security guards, and he estimated that it wouldn't be long before Helsinki would become Finland's Birmingham. #Helsinki #yhteiskunta #kulttuuri (translated)

Pjotr Debatt considered HS's writing a proper and fairly straightforward statement against face-covering cloaks. According to him, leftist parties often prioritized solidarity towards immigrants over women's rights, while moderate centrists and liberal circles remained silent to avoid allegations of capitulating. #naistenoikeudet #maahanmuutto #politiikka (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi criticized the allocation of tax funds to the close circles she described and wrote that money was collected at coffee and pastry meetings. According to her, eight members of parliament and three members of the European Parliament served as chairpersons of the boards of organizations receiving STEA funding: four from the SDP, two from the Left, two from the Greens, two from the National Coalition, and one from the Centre. #järjestörälssi #VeronmaksajanKukkarolla https://t.co/fp5Qnipiks #järjestörälssi #verovarat #tuki (translated)

Hannu Järvinen wrote that he found it strange to think that banning driving and filling the center with construction pits would reduce people's desire to go there. He added that he would not have believed this would happen. https://t.co/vdkU1pQKga #autoilu #rakentaminen #kaupunkisuunnittelu (translated)

Sture Fjäder described the speeches of the chairperson of the SDP as arrogant boasting. According to him, the Centre Party could not enter a government like that of 2019 with its current support, as it would be suicide for the party. Fjäder also assessed that the third-place National Coalition Party could not join a blue-red government, as its support would further decline. #vaalit2027 https://t.co/BkIrQe5Sot #vaalit #politiikka #Suomi (translated)

The Daily Bureaucrat asked whether bike paths should be built in downtown Helsinki, car lanes blocked, and palms planted. He wrote that the appeal of the city center had collapsed and that it was Pia Svensk's task to reverse this trend. https://t.co/L19cMrj3N3 #Helsinki #kaupunkisuunnittelu #pyöräily (translated)

Indeed, it is quite a shock for middle-aged people today and those younger than them. It is important to understand that not everyone has the health to work until the age of 70, not at all, and not everyone has the stamina for it. Some may manage, though. The leader of the Center Party, Antti Kaikkonen, stated that his party opposes a systematic increase of the retirement age to 70 years. #eläke #muistisairaudet #politiikka (translated)

Pentti Alajoki wrote that all Finnish MEPs from the National Coalition Party, the Greens, the Swedish People's Party, the Left Alliance, and the Social Democratic Party voted in favor of the approval of the packaging directive. According to him, two representatives from the Finns Party and Mauri Pekkarinen from the Centre Party voted against it. Alajoki criticized that this was how Finland was defended in the EU. #EU #Suomi #politiikka (translated)

Sture Fjäder described the situation as sad to see from a National Coalition Party perspective and said that the National Coalition was in third place due to its own mistakes. According to him, the True Finns were in second place and could rise above 17 percent in the next poll. Fjäder stated that the National Coalition could not enter into a blue-red government: in his view, the alternatives were the opposition or a government that would include the True Finns, the National Coalition, the Centre Party, the Christian Democrats, and the Swedish People's Party. #vaalit2027 https://t.co/oDPgXU9BMM #vaalit #politiikka #Suomi (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for often choosing female journalists to incite moral panic, according to him. He interpreted Yle's analysis as showing that support for the National Coalition Party among women had dropped to 12 percent and that the Finns Party had surpassed this party. However, according to Mäkäräinen, women were not punishing the National Coalition Party for its policies but for its austerity measures, and men were supporting the state. Mäkäräinen believed that the decline in women's support was due to the impact of budget cuts on sectors predominantly employing women, such as social services, organizations, and public services. In his view, this did not make the cuts unjust, but rather highlighted their effects. He mentioned the Social Democratic Party, the Left Alliance, and the Centre Party as the most popular parties among women and claimed that the left proposed tax increases amounting to nine billion euros. According to Mäkäräinen, the costs of these increases would fall on men who work overtime, start businesses, and pay progressive taxes. Mäkäräinen assessed that the issue for the National Coalition Party was its attempt to soften difficult decisions, while the Finns Party spoke about the same issues more directly. He argued that men were underrepresented in the care sector and overrepresented in dangerous jobs, entrepreneurship, and at the high end of the tax revenue spectrum. In his opinion, the National Coalition Party should maintain its stance even if it lost some female support, as this could help it win over voters who support the sustainability of the state. https://t.co/DfwLyPN03s #Politiikka #NaistenOikeudet #Taloustieto (translated)

Anatoli Karatammi stated that he had asked an artificial intelligence about the voting in Finland that has sparked discussions and its consequences, such as the bottle return issues. According to him, the artificial intelligence responded that only representatives of the Finns Party opposed the vote, and that representatives from the National Coalition Party, the Social Democrats, the Centre Party, and the Greens voted in favor of it. https://t.co/BJgKSkTM42 #Suomi #äänestys #tekoäly (translated)

Mika Merano wrote that he considers the support development of the Finns Party to be positive. According to him, the party's support had tended to rise before the parliamentary elections and was greater than the polling numbers in the elections. He hoped that the development would continue until the elections and assessed that the support for the Finns Party would mean less corruption and immigration as well as prioritizing citizens. Merano congratulated the Left Alliance on their record results. He assessed that this was due to positive work and offering genuine alternatives, although he considered these alternatives to be poor and extremely harmful himself. He was not surprised by the Greens' support remaining stagnant, as he believed the Left Alliance already offered everything that the Greens did, and described the Greens' communication as sour whining. Regarding the situation of the Centre Party, Merano wrote metaphorically that the party's sun had set behind the culverts. He described the Centre Party's election speeches as promises of cheap fuel for tractors. #perussuomalaiset #eduskuntavaalit #suomi (translated)

Venla Manninen wrote that, in her opinion, there was evidence presented regarding the effects of mass immigration on Western countries and that the situation in Germany, France, and Britain, as well as statistics on sexual crimes, unemployment benefits, prisoners, and gangs could not be ignored. She believed that the differences between parties were evident in how willing they were to address the problems of immigration. According to Manninen, the Finns Party was the only credible party to solve these issues. She criticized the green-left for focusing on multiculturalism and stated that the Social Democrats had voted against nearly all of the government's immigration tightening measures. She also highlighted the border security law, claiming that six social democrats, including the party's vice-chairman, voted against it. Manninen criticized the Centre Party for its lack of direction and noted that the party had announced it was aiming for 40,000 net immigrants per year in this electoral term. She described the National Coalition Party as contradictory: according to her, the party spoke about deporting criminals while simultaneously wanting tens of thousands of immigrants for low-wage jobs. Manninen argued that only a small portion of labor immigrants found employment in jobs requiring special skills and that nearly all directed towards low-wage sectors. Manninen believed that the Finns Party was advancing Finland's and the Finns' interests and dared to say things that, in her opinion, other parties did not acknowledge. However, she pointed out that no party could change laws on its own. She stated that without the Finns Party in government, concrete legislative actions would not be taken to address immigration issues, and instead, tightening measures might be lifted and rules loosened. #maahanmuutto #Suomi #politiikka (translated)

Antti Kaikkonen wrote that the Centre Party did not support a systematic increase of the retirement age to 70. According to him, working lives should be extended with incentives, and a tax incentive for employees over the retirement age could encourage them to continue working beyond the age of 65. #eläke #työelämä #keskusta (translated)