PERSPECTIVE DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS THE ELECTORAL BREAKTHROUGH OF THE FINNS PARTY Reactions of Finnish Parliamentary Parties 2011–2022 Sanna Salo December 2022 The radical right-wing, popu­list Finns Party(Perussuoma­laiset, PS) made its electoral breakthrough in the Eduskun­ta election in 2011, winning 19.1 per cent of the vote. In the highly pragmatic Finn­ish political culture, the other parliamentary parties have broadly accepted the PS as a normal party and engaged in legislative cooperation with it. The PS participated in a right­wing coalition government between 2015–2019. The party has affected Finnish politics by raising the salience of immigration and law-and­order issues and attempting to stretch the limits of accept­able political speech, also in parliament.