: The Finns, whose support is based on equal parts of anti-euro, anti-immigrant and anti-establishment sentiment, have captured voters on the back of the euro-area economic crisis and a home-grown collapse of key industries, according to Bloomberg. In the 2011 election, during the height of the euro crisis, it shocked the traditional parties by winning 19 percent of the vote. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images The anti-euro The Finns party, which eight years ago got just 4 percent of the vote, is now dressing itself up for Cabinet seats as Finnish voters are set to oust the government after four years of economic failure. We can’t be ignored, because a strong majority government won’t be possible without us, Timo Soini, the party leader, said in a phone interview April 9. In Hellenic nation, anti-austerity Syriza grabbed power in January elections and in Spain, where an election is due this year, its ally Podemos has topped polls. Europeans are seeing their political landscape shifting with the emergence of non-establishment parties from Greece in the south to Finland in the north.
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