Iran Press/ Europe: Ms. Purra, leader of the far-right populist Finns Party, is the fourth member of her party to be taken to task for racial slurs, anti-immigrant comments, and anti-Muslim remarks since taking office last month in Finland’s new center-right government.
Ms. Purra’s apology came via Twitter on Tuesday after days of speculation and controversy over whether she was the author of comments by a poster called “riikka” on the blog of her predecessor as Finns leader.
Moreover in some racial remarks in 2008 he talked about shooting teenage Somali immigrants on a commuter train. Apologizing for her comments, she said that “taken out of context and evaluated in the present moment, some texts look even worse”.
“I apologise for my stupid social media comments 15 years ago and for the harm and resentment that they understandably caused. I’m not a perfect person, I’ve made mistakes,” she added. “I do not accept any kind of violence, racism or discrimination. Those who know my way of working and my values know that.”
She insisted that as head of the second-largest party in Finland’s four-way center-right coalition, she would emphasize “the primacy and importance of human rights, non-discrimination and other basic values”.
Her apology came hours after she insisted on Monday evening she would neither apologize nor resign for the comments, conceding only that she would not write them now.
Since taking office last month, four of the Finns Party’s seven cabinet members have been called out over Hitler jokes and racist remarks. The country’s interior minister has indicated an interest in the “great replacement” conspiracy theory while the justice minister has dubbed EU policy a “new form of fascism”.
Last week Finland’s economics minister resigned after 10 days in the job and was replaced by a party colleague previously accused of sexually harassing women, though acquitted of a rape charge.
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