Ok, ok, ok...
So in the last few days the Finns (formerly True Finns) a populist right-wing party and one of the three parties in the Finnish government, have elected new leadership for their party.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/jussi_halla-aho_elected_finns_party_leader/9662264
A short recap for those not aware of minor details in Finnish politics:
Years ago there was a populist party in Finland, SMP, that was basically trying to be "the workers party but without any socialism" and as that party collapsed the foundation that controlled all the remaining money of the party used the money to found a new party, the Finns. (In a slight exaggeration what happened was that the foundation leaders hated the new leadership of the old party and backstabbed them.)
The Finns started out as a very similar party as the SMP had been. Loud, quick to point fingers and eager to take any power and popularity they could but ultimately very minor importance due to small voterbase.
Then came along racism. The rise of "immigration-critical" people like Jussi Halla-Aho lead to Finns recruiting him and other loud racists (Halla-Aho has always tried to keep an image of civilized intellect while most of his followers are more of the "get the fuck out of my country niggers!" type of debaters.) This and the failings of the other parties finally caused an influx of new voters and Finns managed to shake politics in Finland as the 90 year old "three big parties that each have 20% of the votes and a bunch of smaller ones" status quo ended with the Finns momentarily having as many votes as the other big three did.
Unfortunately this also meant that despite the "we represent the commong folk, the workers, the poor, the TRUE FINNS and fight against the rich elite" ideology was taken over by the nationalists and racists who were the new voters and many of the newly elected Finns were from that block. There were two separate groups in the party and Soini, who had been the leader since the beginning, was having trouble maintaining a grip on them. Not the least because most of the newly elected politicians had no background in politics and had no idea what they were supposed to do.
Over the last few years the racist-wing of the party grew bigger and now that Soini saw that he might not be able to win the next internal elections for leadership he made a big show of retiring. The two most likely candidates to win were Sampo Terho, the minister of culture in the government and an all around dick with racist tendencies and Jussi Halla-Aho, a member of EU parliament and a man who has a cult of personality among racists and nationalists in Finland.
In a not so surprising move they elected Jussi Halla-Aho aka "The master" aka "Race doctor" aka "the guy who fantasises about shooting gay men in the head and has publicly spoken how he wishes that immigrants rape the wife of another politician that he disagreed with." ...And the next three highest ranks went to his discples as well. Two of who have publicly said that they do not believe in evolution. ...Though one of them has confused evolution with the big bang theory. ...At least I think because there is a quote about him saying how he doesn't really get evolution because it has something to do with "someone blowing up a match in space or something."
Also, the party meeting has been a farce in other ways as well. They were supposed to vote about changing the rules of the party (because currently they have no way of Kicking out Soini from his position as a minister of foreign affairs) but they were unable to do this. Mainly because the people present in the meeting had lost their voting tickets. And they couldn't vote by raising hands because some of the people present did not have the right to vote (presumably people like reporters and others who weren't members of the party) and after several different attempts at organizing the vote the people present agreed that a digital vote that would be held later is the best way to handle the matter.
...And then Halla-Aho said that instead they will have the party leadership decide changing the rules and everyone agreed to it. (Not sure if that's allowed in their rules.)
And one of the other parties in the government has already had several of their members come out and say that the government should be disbanded because they refuse to work with Finns now that Soini and his gang is in charge.
TL;DR
One of the major parties in Finland goes three more steps towards nationalism by changing the party leadership and there is an imminent political crisis in the government as a result.
Couple final notes:
a) Finns can now blackmail the other parties by asking more and more favours. Because there is no way in hell that the "we are trying to emulate GOP in USA" changes that the current government is trying to push trough would succeed with any other party and unless they do what May did and hope that a unscheduled early election gives them more votes the Finns are their only hope.
b) Remember that bit about a foundation having control of the party money? It still does. And the leaders of the foundation include Soini and few more of his cronies. The very people who lost their positions in the party and whom the new elite have already publicly insulted and mocked. Legally they can do a repeat of the end of SMP and decide that they foundation withdraws all the funding and uses it to form a new party. (Or gives the money to a different existing party. I am secretly hoping that Soini does the biggest "FUCK YOU" that he can think of and finances the Pirate party or the Greens or something.