The Green parliamentary group will present a motion of no confidence against Interior Minister Mari Rantanen following the report by the Equality Ombudsman. The motion will be presented by the deputy chairwomen of the parliamentary group Saara Hyrkkö and Inka Hopsu at the plenary session scheduled for this weekend.
According to a report by the Equality Ombudsman, the political leadership of the Ministry of the Interior discriminates against refugees on the basis of religion and national origin when preparing the refugee quota.
“We see no other option in a situation where the authority has stated that the Minister of the Interior has violated the principle of the Constitution. In Finland, there is no need to give a line to the rule of law and equality for the trend that can be found in the world,” Hyrkkö said.
The Greens were waiting for Prime Minister Orpo’s responsive report to the findings, as he had promised. In his answer to Veronika Honkasalo’s oral question on the subject last November, the Prime Minister nevertheless approved the minister’s inappropriate action. The Green Party emphasizes that Finland must not move in a direction where the government and its ministers should not care about the Constitution. The talk of zero tolerance for racism was also just hot air, Hopsu said.
