The Swedish People's Party board met to discuss the continued fallout from Finance Minister Riikka Purra's racist blog comments and the overall situation within the four-party coalition government.
The government, which has taken several months to assemble, harbors numerous differences ranging from attitudes to the EU, fiscal policies and immigration to the status of the Swedish language.
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