Finnish Parliamentary elections 2015+
(Even though the Parliamentary elections 2015 are gone, my renewal aspiration goes on. And since it was never meant to be measurement of personal success or failure, please feel welcome to join us and help the change happen.)
Hello my name is Rostislav Dinkov a Finnish and Bulgarian citizen, as well as a member of the Finnish Green Party and next I present my political platform in brief. In November 2013 I wrote a comment, "To my Finland with love, see attachment", where for the first time I expressed my idea of "a New Finnish and European generation” in written. Briefly its core equals productive and creative way of thinking, regardless of one’s origin, race, religion, accent ☺ or other secondary matter. Legislatively equality is guaranteed by our country’s Constitution and other national and international laws, but in my view a number of events from the recent years, show some really worrisome examples:
§ A personal advisor of the Finnish parliamentarian James Hirvisaari proposes that the foreigners are marked 11.4.2012 at 19.02 http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2012041115438184_uu.shtml
In 2012 the Greens altogether with the rest of civilized Finland objected the mentioned opinion, but Mr James Hirvisaari altogether with his ideas is still a Member of the Finnish Parliament and it is the legal choice of the voters. However, I strongly believe that the best practical way of objection to such kind of thinking, would be that also by the choice of the people, alongside Mr. Hirvisaari come the first members of Parliament of foreign background, who via their own example can show that “the other side of the coin” is equally valuable dimension of our society. I believe that this is really important, especially after recently (week 44 of 2014) the Interior Minister of our country Päivi Räsänen stated:
§ "Dual Citizens may be denied access to critical for the Finnish security positions. http://www.msn.com/fi-fi/uutiset/kotimaa/sis%c3%a4ministeri-kahden-maan-kansalaisella-voisi-tulla-lojaliteettiongelmia/ar-BBc4iF2?ocid=ASUDHP". According to the same article, currently there are some 60 000 “foreigners” who have been granted Finnish nationality.
Ms Räsänen's concern is that the dual citizens may face loyalty problems. Well as a member of the New Finnish and European generation I would say that loyalty is not measured by prejudices and suspicions, but by real deeds and facts, which is the contemporary legal framework in both Finland and the European Union.
Also, as a member of the New Finnish generation, I’d prefer that people like me are not treated as minority. Even if some practices have shown such trend, we are legitimate full members of our society, as we pay our taxes by the normal (not minority) tax rate, as well as when voting for Parliament or President we do it by our Finnish (not minority) passport. In addition because of our country’s bad age-structure (workers / pensioners 3/1) the working members of the New Finnish generation prove even further the necessity to be considered as full-right members of the Finnish society, hence I would see no reasonable ground for restricting our rights by law or spoken expressions.
In brief the main points of my agenda are:
- Primly the renewal of our country's way of thinking, it’s economy and society, where the idea of the New Finnish and European generation belongs. Please note that since the core of the idea is creative and productive way of thinking, every Finnish citizen is welcomed to join in, regardless of his or her origin or political belonging! After all, a man is not born left, right, centrist, or green, they are things that he is learning and choosing later on, either rationally or emotionally. And if my idea is given a chance "to participate in the elections" in our Finland there will be one renewal and voting possibility more and our country's political life will be a possibility richer. The rest would be chosen by the voters.
- Economic and fiscal policies as well as our country’s competitiveness (as a financial analyst, I have good and deep knowledge of the matter, which can be presented separately);
- Equality rights in reality;
- Violence and especially the psychological one;
- Education in our country and our Union;
- Unemployment or rather the employment opportunities, including both the unemployed and the employed well-being;
- the Pensioners and in general the well-being of the elderly;
- Green policies regarding all of the mentioned;
- And as long as my time and strength reach all important subjects that the people are interested in.
P. S. So far my opinion "To my Finland with love" and the ideas discussed in it have received widespread support by for example Jyrki Katainen as both Prime Minister of Finland and Vice-President of the European Commission (see. attachment Mr. Dinkov.pdf) as well as a number of Finnish politicians with whom I have been in contact, plus a lot of my Finnish and international fellows. Hence I hope for your support as well.
...right and wrong - heal the world...
Yours faithfully
Rostislav Dinkov
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