NAZI JOKE RESIGNATION: As the culmination of the last week’s “Nazi joke minister” scandal, the parliament ended up, extremely nimbly, confirming the controversial minister Vilhelm Junnila and giving the government a vote of confidence. Junnila didn’t even get the support of all the parties in the government. Most of the Swedish People’s Party, the most liberal party in the government, voted against him; he only survived since many of the opposition party MP’s had already checked out of the parliamentary work.
For a bit of context, it should be noted that the Summer Services of the Laestadian movement, a conservative Lutheran movement, attracted ca 90 000 people deep to the Finnish countryside at roughly the same time.
Pride march drawing more people than any other public festivity, cancellation on a issue that it is approved only by a tiny minority of people etc
Symptoms of americanisation and slipping in culture war for sure
And when it will happen, it will be bad news for every party to the right of center
For a bit of context, it should be noted that the Summer Services of the Laestadian movement, a conservative Lutheran movement, attracted ca 90 000 people deep to the Finnish countryside at roughly the same time.
https://www.suviseurat.fi/en/summer-services/