In addition to the parties represented in Finland's current parliament, thirteen more minor, officially registered, political parties have nominated candidates in the April elections.
The leaders of these parties will have their say during an Yle panel on Thursday 16 March, broadcast at 9 PM on TV1, Yle Areena and Yle Radio Suomi.
Here, a brief introduction to the parties and their main policies:
Open Party
The Open Party was registered in 2021, and is now putting up candidates for parliament for the first time.
The founder and chair of the party, Petrus Pennanen, made a fortune from an artificial intelligence business deal and previously served as the chair of the Pirate Party.
The Open Party says that instead of the traditional right-left divide, the focus of its thinking is based on scientific knowledge.
Among other things, the party is pushing for a tax-free monthly basic income of 1,500 euros to be paid to everyone, and the legalisation of cannabis.
Finnish Reform Movement
The roots of the Finnish Reform Movement are in the Finns Party from which it separated in 2017 after Jussi Halla-aho became chair of the Finns Party. The party has previously also been known by the names Blue Future and The Blues.
The Finnish Reform Movement lists patriotism and family orientation among its core values. The party wants to lower taxes on work income, entrepreneurship and ownership, as well as ease the tax burden on families.
The Reform Movement has entered into an electoral alliance with the Christian Democrats and the Centre Party in the Helsinki electoral district.
In the 2019 parliamentary elections, the party gained one percent voter support, not enough to win a seat in parliamnent.
Liberal Party
The Liberal Party strives to promote broad freedom for individuals and businesses.
The party was originally registered in 2016 as the National Whiskey Party. At that time, the name was intended to express opposition Finland's strict alcohol policies.
The Liberal Party is going into the elections with a list of massive state spending cuts totalling more than nine billion euros. However, the party is also pledging to not reduce basic services, such as social security, healthcare, education, defense or internal security.
It proposes to slash the taxation of salary income by 4.3 billion euros and shift the focus of taxation to consumption and "sin taxes".
The Liberal Party has some well-known candidates on its list, such as Bank of Finland economist Sanna Kurronen.
Animal Justice Party of Finland
The Animal Justice Party, which promotes animal rights, was founded in 2015. The party's goal is a society where all living beings have the right to their own lives and freedoms.
It wants animals not to be treated as commodities, objects or raw material in the eyes of the law, but to have an independent value as living beings. According to the party, killing of animals should be stopped in production, research and nature.
The party is also critical of, for example, the large number of pets in the country, and opposes fur farms and the use of animals in scientific experimentation.
In addition to animal rights policy, the party's main theme in the elections is ecological reconstruction.
Feminist Party
For the Feminist Party, founded in 2016, the most important issues are equality, equity and human rights. At the forefront of the party's policy is the promotion of gender equality.
The party's goal is also to intervene in the discriminatory structures of society. The party wants to ban organized racism through legislation.
The Feminist Party's election pledges include reforming social security by introducing a basic income. It also wants to increase child benefits.
In terms of values, the Feminist Party is liberal and politically on the left in terms of economic policy. It won one seat on the Helsinki City Council in the 2017 municipal elections, but lost it in the 2021 municipal elections.
Communist Party of Finland
The goal of the Communist Party is a socialist Finland. The party has been active in its current form since 1996, but its roots go all the way back to 1918.
The party demands a change in income distribution, where profits are cut and large capital gains and assets are taxed more. According to the Communist Party, the state must take over the production of energy and medicines. Banking and other financial institutions must also be transferred to the ownership of society.
Among other goals, it is promoting a six-hour working day without lowering earnings levels and a basic monthly income insurance of 1,200 euros for all permanent residents of Finland.
The party does not support Finland's Nato membership or supplying arms to Ukraine. According to the party's position, instead of arms and confrontation, extensive international cooperation is needed to solve the environmental crisis and global problems.
Crystal Party
The Crystal Party founded in 2014, is pushing to curtail the position of pharmaceutical companies in healthcare. It wants to bring alternative treatment methods into the scope of public-financed systems and give them equal status to current forms of treatment based on standard western medicine.
The party gained publicity during the coronavirus pandemic with its opposition to vaccines and claims that Covid is no more serious than the common cold.
The Crystal Party would lower unemployment by shortening the duration of the full-time work week. Also, it wants to see distance learning and home schooling developed as alternatives to local public schools.
The party also demands that Finland's natural environment must be provided better protection than at present, the Mining Act must be revised and groundwater must be protected.
The Crystal Party advocates exiting the EU and abandoning the euro.
Finnish Nation First
Finnish Nation First describes itself as a nationalist party that defends Finnish values and culture.
The party opposes Finland's Nato membership and aims for regional equality and keeping the entire country inhabited.
It has been on the official party register since 2018.
Freedom League
Freedom League is a group that broke with MP Ano Turtiainen's Power Belongs to the People Party, in early 2022 due to that party's pro-Russia stance.
The right-wing conservative Freedom League supports Finland's exit from the EU and the euro and opposes Finland's Nato membership. It is also critical of Covid restrictions and immigration. The Freedom League does not deny climate change, but does not consider it man-made either.
Key values listed for the party are freedom and equality. It says society should not enable unequal treatment of people on the basis of, for example, colour, nationality, sexual orientation, personal health decisions or gender.
Pirate Party
The main platform themes of the Pirate Party, founded in 2008, revolved around copyright, patents, civil rights and protection of privacy. Its core values are freedom and equality.
The party election platform calls for, universal opportunities to access digital devices, services and materials.
It would also like to establish a new information policy ministry bringing together the regulation and supervision of data protection and information security, intelligence services oversight, and copyright and patent matters.
Power Belongs to the People Party
Power Belongs to the People Party was established after MP Ano Turtiainen was expelled from the Finns Party in June 2021.
The party garnered a total of more than 24,000 votes in the 2022 regional elections and got ten regional councillor seats.
The party's stated goal is to maintain Finland as a strongly international country that cherishes European free trade and yet as an independent, neutral, and militarily non-aligned nation. Internal security is one of the most important policy areas for the party.
Blue and Black Movement
The Blue and Black Movement was founded in 2022 at the initiative of political activists who were influential in the youth organization of the Finns Party
It describes itself as a "nationalist radical" party. It aims at making Finnish the country's only official language and preserving Finland as ethnically Finnish. The party's goal is zero immigration.
Blue and black refer to the colours of the radical anti-constitutional right-wing Lapua movement active in Finland 1929 to 1932.
Citizens' Union
The Citizens' Union would transfer decision-making to the nation's citizens and increase regional self-government. The special position of political parties in the decision-making process should be abolished. It would give the right of taxation to all levels of government.
The Citizens' Union is critical of Nato and the EU.
The party has previously also been known by the names On Behalf of Balance and the Independence Party.
The official party register also includes the Seven Star Movement and the Citizens' Party, neither of which has fielded candidates in the spring parliamentary elections.
The party names in English in this report are unofficial translations.