For readers not versed in Finnish politics, the only party with a majority opposed is Vasemmistoliitto (Left Alliance), the rebranded former Finnish Communist/Socialist party.
The Left Alliance is the successor of SKDL, which started out as a thin disguise for the banned Finnish Communist Party after the Soviets arm-twisted the Finnish government into allowing it. Obviously their politics have been diluted since the early days, but older folk recall their heritage well.
European countries have a history of assimilating anti-establishment parties into the establishment. They did it with revolutionary communists, they did it with the green movement, and now they are doing it with the conservative nationalist / right-wing populist / whatever parties. The Finnish equivalent of the AfD is in a coalition government led by the traditional center-right party. In Sweden, the corresponding party supports the right-wing coalition. And in Italy, Brothers of Italy is the leading party in a coalition that turned out to be unexpectedly moderate.
Half of the Left Alliance either voted against it or abstained. They're not one of the big 3 parties, but they have enough seats in parliament to have an effect on things.
Populist parties in Europe do not necessarily oppose taxation for social programs and collective solidarity. This is the case with the Perussuomalaiset party in Finland, for example, which supports a welfare state in spite of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that gets it categorized as far-right.
Small addition: PvdA (one of the two parties in the new government) is the labor party. The 'socialist party' spoken of in the article is the SP, which still did well in the polls when the article was written, fell out of favor.
The European 'united front' type parties include all communist varieties and they are not social democrats. They include everyone from Anarcho Syndicalists to Stalinists to Maoists to plain Marxist-Leninists and all the other varieties.
For social democrats, you look at center-left (or actually, center) parties. They use the name 'socialist' in the name. Whenever you see one, you are looking at centrist social democrats.
The reason why this left coalition with majority centrists is able to do pro-people reforms and fight big money is because the communist coalition partner is pushing hard for it. (And also all of these was signed in the pre-coalition agreement).
So its probably the most successful left wing government in West Europe in the last 40 yeras for that reason. They were able to pass major reforms ranging from the labor reform that now protects 'contractors' to raising the minimum wage two times, from rent control to the new minimum income law among many others. I totally did not expect that they would be able to succeed in that much. It was quite a surprise.
The right wing party (actually a coalition of 2 right wing "mainstream" parties) was the most voted party but fell way short of a majority (they control 102 seats out of 230) and failed to get parliamentary support.
That question mark is not needed. Sverigedemokraterna is very much in the same vein as the Danish People's Party and currently rates at about 10% in opinion surveys. They haven't changed the Overton Window very much since all other parties have a pretty solid front of not supporting Sverigedemokraterna but they most certainly have shifted the window a bit to the right.
The original Left Alliance was like that, but the current party has very little to do with that heritage. The younger generation started a slow coup in the late 90s and eventually pivoted the party to a completely new direction. In the process, they lost many of their old supporters. The left-wing conservatives who had traditionally voted communists didn't really feel at home in a party of liberal environmentalists.
They ran on an unapologetically left wing platform and saw the largest increase in vote share since 1945, denying the ruling party a majority in the process.
You think the ruling party isn't going to react to that by moderating its position?
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