A vast majority of Finland’s new MPs have responded affirmatively to the Yle election engine question on whether the country needs more police. As many as 164 MPs would vote for more police – that is 84 percent of the new Parliament.
Of the new MPs 16 percent said they somewhat disagree with swelling police ranks. No one said they would oppose the motion entirely.
Greatest opposition in south, Finns and Christians for
Constituencies in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland Proper and Pirkanmaa were most strongly against upping the number of police. In Uusimaa 23 percent said they somewhat disagree with the proposal.
One hundred percent of MPs from Satakunta and Åland would vote yes to more police, bearing in mind that Åland only elects one MP to Parliament.
The responses of the four biggest parties were close to the mean percentages. The Finns Party is an exception, of whose 38 representatives only one MP somewhat disagreed. All nine Christian Democrat MPs agreed completely or somewhat with increasing the number of police.
About a half of the Greens MPs – seven out of 15 – said they disagreed somewhat with the police proposal, with the Left and the Swedish People’s Party also clocking in higher proportions of disagreement.
