Anni Sinnemäki, the labour minister and Green League leader, on Wednesday blasted an "election manifesto" drafted by a group of True Finns MPs as muddled and counterproductive.
The manifesto focuses on immigration policy.

Sinnemäki said on her website that the immigration policy proposed in the manifesto would lead to the very problems and conflicts that its authors wanted to stop from forming in the first place.

Having praised the True Finns for coming up with a set of concrete proposals instead of random rants on the internet, Sinnemäki added that the opposition party's draft immigration policy would transform immigrants into "a pariah class".

"The demands in the manifesto are contradictory," she wrote.

"The line sketched by the manifesto sees immigrants as a pariah class living under uncertainty. This kind of policy would lead to the very problems and conflicts that its authors are so convinced to avoid."

The True Finns manifesto says that Finland must shed its "multicultural state ideology copied from other parts of western Europe, especially from Sweden".

"We feel that satisfying immigrants' special religious and cultural needs is not one of the core functions of a Finnish state funded by the taxpayers," the manifesto reads.

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