Workers' Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Työväenpuolue, sv, Finlands Arbetarparti) is a left-wing
political party
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in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. The STP was founded in 2006 as a successor to the Alternative League (1999–2006).
In the
2007 parliamentary election the party obtained 1,764 votes.
Tulos puolueittain
/ref> The party was removed from the in May 2007 after left without parliamentary seats in two consecutive elections, but they re-registered the same year after collecting 5,000 signed again.
The Workers Party of Finland was formed in Helsinki 17 September 2006. Four of the six elected party leaders were activists of the League of Communists, a 2002 split of the Communist Workers' Party. Juhani Tanski was elected president of the STP.
The party has a bimonthly newspaper '' Kansan ääni'', which is shared between the organizations League of Communists, People's Front Against European Union
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(EUVKr), and Work Against War and Fascism
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* Work (human activity), intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the community
** Manual labour, physical work done by humans
** House work, housework, or homemaking
** Working animal, an anim ...
(SFT).
Elections
See also
*List of Communist Party (Finland) breakaway parties
Since the founding of the Communist Party of Finland
The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; sv, Finlands Kommunistiska Parti) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern a ...
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2006 establishments in Finland
Political parties established in 2006
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