Members of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's government met in Vantaa on Tuesday to discuss the government programme and their rules of the game.
Discussions concerned a recent scandal, and how coalition members should proceed.
Last week there was an early shake-up in Orpo's administration, when the newly appointed economic affairs minister Vilhelm Junnila announced he was stepping down from his post, following revelations about his past controversial social media posts and links to far-right movements.
Despite Junnila surviving a confidence vote in Parliament, he resigned after more details about his social media past were revealed.
At a meeting with members of the press on Tuesday morning, Orpo said that a number of Junnila's posts had links to far-right ideologies and racism, and that a line had been crossed.
Orpo defends Rantanen
Orpo was also asked about by another Finns Party member in his cabinet, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen.
In a tweet on Sunday, Rantanen denounced right-wing conspiracy theories, shortly after her own past social media activity came into the spotlight, specifically comments suggesting she believed in replacement theory, as well as her use of hashtags relating to far-right ideology.
The Great Replacement is a far-right extremist theory that suggests that ethnic white Western populations are being demographically and culturally replaced by non-white people, particularly from Muslim-majority countries.
As interior minister, Rantanen is also responsible for supervising the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo). The agency has previously expressed concern over the growth of right-wing extremism in Finland.
Today, Orpo said he had spoken briefly with the minister, and assured reporters that Rantanen has nothing to do with the extreme right.
Orpo said that he and other government members discussed the past days' events.
"We have a unified view of what happened and how to move forward," Orpo said.
Yle asks a former PM and political researcher
Seven out of 10 Swedish People's Party (SPP) MPs voted against Junnila in a confidence motion last week, while the others abstained. He only survived the vote because 12 opposition MPs did not turn up for the vote. The SPP is one of four parties in the coalition.
The scandal raised questions about the government's ability to move forward in unison.
Yle asked the longtime Centre politician, and Finland's third longest-serving prime minister, Matti Vanhanen, for his opinion about the current government's situation. However, it should be noted that Vanhanen's Centre Party is in the opposition.
He said the rules a cabinet follows is generally already formed during the government negotiation phase.
"Apparently this matter concerning Minister Junnila was not foreseen," Vanhanen said.
According to Vanhanen, it is likely government members will agree to resolve matters internally before issuing any public statements.
He added that the Junnila incident has been so difficult for the coalition parties that they will likely refrain from publicly criticising each other — at least for while.
Political researcher Johanna Vuorelma told Yle that she does not think that the government's problems will be solved by agreeing to rules of the game.
She said that the mistrust seen between the parties was already an issue from the start, a situation which led to a long period of government negotiations and a highly detailed government programme.
Orpo's government issued their programme after a record 44 days of formation talks.
The researcher also noted that the past public activities of Finns Party members could not have come as a surprise to the other parties in the coalition, but that the strong reactions from abroad may well have been a surprise to them.
Vuorelma said she does not think a discussion about game rules will help to effectively deal with these kinds of issues.
"It's not usually unclear to long-term politicians how a minister should act or how to foster trust between government partners. In the Junnila case, they acted according to the rules of the game of public rhetoric and at the same time, through the various logic of their own [parties'] supporters," Vuorelma said.