The Finns Party published its regional and municipal election programme on Monday, demanding that "perversion" should be removed from schools.
"The basics in primary school — education, not perversion, a growing child needs more than tofu," the programme states.
The programme does not specify what "perversion" refers to.
The party's chair, Finance Minister Riikka Purra (Finns), however, said at a press conference on Monday that one of the election themes for the Finns Party is "stop the madness".
According to Purra, this means, for example, restricting freedom of expression, "wokeism", banning board games and Christmas songs and talking to schoolchildren about multiple sexes and men who give birth.
"It is not a small matter. Especially when the brainwashing we oppose is directed at children and young people," Purra said.
Economic and security issues
In Purra's opinion, the real problems of this election are the economy and security.
"We need to be more careful about where we put taxpayers' precious money and what we can achieve with it," Purra said.
As for security, Purra said that the problems in this area differ in different parts of Finland.
Immigration and schools
Immigration is also an important issue for the party in these elections. According to the election programme, municipalities should curb factors encouraging what they referred to as "poor immigration".
"Immigration is reflected in learning outcomes, in unrest, in many of the problems in schools. This, of course, affects Finnish people and their opportunities to teach and learn," Purra said.
The Finns Party has also proposed reinstating support classes for underperforming students.
The party's election programme also dove into the issue of ability groups in early childhood education, determined by pupils' understanding of Finnish and Swedish.
The programme noted that these separate classes segregate immigrants and children of immigrants from fully integrating into Finnish society.
However, the programme added that courses aimed at integrating immigrant-background children must not lead to situations where multilingual environments and poor Finnish language skills lead to chaos and poor educational outcomes for all.
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