True Finns worry over "image of democracy" in Finland!

The report from Helsinki, is linked here in a brief version describing how in one EU country at least, there exists a political party remaining concerned with real democracy. A quote:

In the interpellation, the True Finns are asking if the government is prepared for the dissolution of the euro, and whether or not the government approves of the issuing of Eurobonds and the use of “banknote financing” by the European Central Bank.

"The government has two weeks to respond to the interpellation put forward by the True Finns.
However, Soini hopes that a response would come before the EU summit on December 9th.
He says that postponing the response until after the meeting would “give an interesting picture of Finnish democracy”.

Timo Soini to run for President of Finland

The leader of what was the True Finns party, (now merely the Finns) has declared over the weekend that he will run in next year's Presidential elections in Finland.

If the EU continues to stumble and falter at its present rate who knows how far this anti-EU Bailout candidate could go, given that at the last attempt he managed only 3.4% of the vote, it will be a good marker for how deeply unpopular the EU has become in Finland! More here.

Timo Soini on Finland's €2 Billion share of next Greek Bailout

The newspaper report, in english, is linked here. A quote:

“It’s no cause of happiness that the losses from this crisis will be socialised and paid for by taxpayers,” said Soini in a YLE interview. “In practice, Greece is insolvent.”

True Finn Leader Timo Soini Interview

Bloomberg will interview Timo Soini at 09:10 am London Time today. He will assert that Greece must default according to Bloomberg news bulletins, so it may be worth catching. This blog will post a report on this posting when the interview has been concluded.

Post Interview Update It appeared Mr Soini had been placed under considerable political pressure to concede agreement over Portugal over the past couple of weeks and on the permanent transfer mechanism due to be agreed 25th June. He re-iterated that he had warned the Greek Bail Out would not work one year ago when it came into effect. He would not vote in the Finnish Parliament for the Portugal Bail Out by the EFSF. If it passed he indicated that would then be the democratic decision. The lady conducting the interview appeared to me either ignorant, ill-informed or both.