Of the consensus politics of finland of under 10 the social and economic model was exchanges high pass no taxation for the excellence of social services some amount in this just been elected the new funny Prime Minister at 3040 years old the youngest Prime Minister in any democracy and im furthermore she leads a 5 Party Coalition all of which are led by women and this out remarkable fact indicates pot should finish politics or rather does underline the continuity of the consensus politics of the us not that country there to examine the prospects for finnish politics in the new year who better than alexis edited in chief of the Helsinki Times. Lets discuss the the coming to power of salam or even must be a great boon for for journalists and helsinki been the whole world is interested and and this young woman the youngest Prime Minister on the planet so as a bit a lot of International Journalists beating a path to the Helsinki Times to see how she got to go on yes absolutely it has been in the tremendous interest from the International Media and even you know Hillary Clinton to eat it about the new government of finland that. Wrote in finnish that vast war me go to finland and i have also received several emails and. From International Media who want to know more so i look as good copy for the Helsinki Times i would imagine yes there are plenty of both the formation of the government has not always 5 parties be led by a young woman but 2 thirds of the new cabinet are women as well yes thats right its even for finn that this is a new record of female leaders and especially their age is very young tell us about the finnish politics men for our International Audience are you know a 5 Party Coalition the social democrats who are the lead party the Prime Ministers spot here they had less than 20 percent of the vote in the elections just passed when that is a quite remarkable range with how do you manage to keep coherent leading 5 parties in a coalition of bust like helping cats well this is this is not uncommon with the finnish finnish politics it has happened several times that there are many different parties and especially these are small parties who get just a fraction of the wards they sometimes even become kingmakers when the big parties they dont want to work with each other so. They just go and collect the small parties together and form a government like like right now but the finish politics is somehow you you could even say boring a lot doesnt happen in the pali i love the strays a lot doesnt. But a lot has happened well 1st because i think it must be one of the most reported events and to lashley to have this this new capital led by young woman but this is a huge story internationally yes it is that there is like i think finland has never got more attention to its new government than now and mainly because these are women and these are young women most of them then again you know finland is a Consensus Society there was a research that. Researchers examine the variety of opinion within the finnish parties and they came out with the result that if you look at the diversity of opinion in of the finnish parties from the right to the left they will all fit into one party one swedish parties diversity of opinion and this is why the has been like for a country like finland which is only 5000000 people and basically in my opinion of. A new unity government. Were of the parties could always be part of the government would be much better solution than this majority forming the government because they really dont differ in opinion as much as you know they could they could handle the even if they look different policy opinions of the certainly have fights because theyve been the last Prime Minister fell because of a very fractious industrial dispute which turned into an argument between the social democrats in the center bar that thats you know thats a bit harder in finnish politics you your not a lot would lie knowingly so if a politician if a finnish politician. Tells a lie and hes caught he or she is caught then thats the end of the game for this specifically telling a lie to parliament or is it just word generally this is what is different with the finnish politics because the integrity of the politicians is really important and the previous Prime Minister he did lie to the to the parliament and so a solace was about the post office it was about the post office and strike and how it was handled so that was the issue not not the strike itself or the you know how it was handled but how do you it dissipate that saddam or even under a new Coalition Government will tackle for example the the post as a something that shell be able to settle reasonably quickly over libya thought and her side as well well that is already gone and put it behind and you should also understand that the reason that this became a big bigger than normal crisis for the government was that the center party was one of the biggest parties in the coalition they had just had a change of leader so catholic woman who became the leader of the center party she also wanted to show some power and reshuffle the government and get a better position for herself and thats why this was basically she was the one who said that we dont trust 3 in there anymore so im interested from europe opinion. Do you think having the cabinet dominated by women will lead to more consensus or will it just be years as Fracture Service power struggles between the parties as the Previous Administration you know interestingly in finland this gender issue has been ever been that important and even today its not really that important but i think one of the biggest problem of this government and the Prime Minister is lack of experience you know its it has been portrayed as a very positive issue that these are young and these are women and the world is congratulating finland for that and of course its a positive issue if they did have the competence but unfortunately or naturally you know being young is also means you have less experience and this is going to be a problem so i would be very surprised if this government would still be in place in one year now where you see the Prime Ministers of experience tens of sexes of the bill is this something you would say for an inexperienced male politician if youre the new male Prime Minister 34. 00 would you be dont full of. A little level of experience that that person had oh absolutely yes. You know we had the the the 2nd youngest before marrying the 2nd youngest Prime Minister we had a score in the beginning of the ninetys he was 36 when he became Prime Minister he also was quite an experienced and he came during a very difficult time it wasnt there was an International Financial crisis but he made all the wrong choices you know this spite advice of economists. He devalue it at the finish currency against other currencies it was before the e. U. And before the euro and at the time when a lot of businesses the hard currency loans and people in fear that their their home loans were in dollars or german market. And he devalue it at the finish finish currency and thousands tens of thousands of businesses went bankrupt a lot of people lost everything many people committed suicide and even today this is very interesting because one of the issues that today in finland is being discussed is the lack of babies you know people are not making babies the production is 1. 4 babies per one adult and the research is wondering the research the reasons why. Young people are not making babies they realize that many of these people grew up during a school or has time. And they still remember the hardship and sudden change of fortune which has has you know traumatized them for life. Codicil blame for many things but the sun usually to be blamed for lack of fertility and a number of births in the column but surely sally molly knowingly the president of experienced real predecessor of 20 years ago will be very careful not to repeat the state i certainly hope so and i want to reiterate and. Strongly say that in finland is really doesnt matter women have had many important roles and for me personally it doesnt matter if a Decision Maker is female or male but i think there should be a competence for the job and for the responsibility that will of course as a newspaper editor you must congratulate the new Prime Minister and generating all this wonderful until last all copy and inquiries and interest. Has been a positive news for finland i certainly hope it will continue and she will do well and she will become an example for others but time will show of course one in. Portent the issue about finland and Finland Politics is that finland is a country that could function without the government for a very very long time because the Civil Service would run 30 yes Civil Servants there is a highly experienced highly reliable on corrupt Civil Servant layer who actually they are the ones who are running everything and one of the things they do is when a new minister comes they brief the minister they tell her what you can do what you cant do and of course the ministers want to. You know run their political agenda and program but its very much the Civil Servants who will run everything this is an International Problem not the finish problem only because the elected officials you know for any other job you need to have a competence for example son a marine would not get the job in any of the ministries based on her c. V. To lead a small section of that ministry what because shes an elected official shes been given their 1st she was a transport minister and now she is the Prime Minister. It doesnt make sense i mean there should be even inside the more crossing there should be some sort of competence level requirement when it comes to high responsibility jobs because sometimes the consequences could be really far reaching coming up after the break we continue our discussion on feminist politics will the new year bring new challenges. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. Spear in Dramatic Development only. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical. To sit down and talk. You know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Welcome back to the hotel come one of the get on to a tale so you get up during the. Extent grew up. Just as for me society has been built right into consensus and its political system we continue our discussion of what the new year in office for these politics. Things have been rubbing along quite well for london been recently voted as the the happiest country on earth. A United States the city so if the Civil Service according to yourself is running the happiest country are left to the must be doing a pretty good job job of course there is a lot of debate about those those results when you when they ask talk to people are you really the happiest people and people say i dont know i i dont think of myself as a happy person if you put a camera in the center of which would detect peoples emotion happiness would not be the main or number one its not because or have the mufflers or because you know even for scott it is quite parker. Yes but the Village People are very content and they are extremely obedient to art already and interesting enough the other happy countries on the planet tend to be the nordic nabl so little but that of the self is interesting because obviously phil and is not as rich as norway its called the. But you youve put your neighbors at the post to become the happiest country theres a lack of leads you must use surely well the nordic welfare system has been functioning well and it has been functioning well for a long time and it has been because they have they have taken this model from each other and it has been a semi socialist system government owns a lot of companies and resources instax in people high but then giving them Many Services for free and so on and equality has been more or less in place so that also comes through the education part of you know because finland has been many times announced as one of the best Education Systems in the world but if you look at it is. It comes down very much to the quality of people because all these kids when they go to a school they none of them is hungry none of them are having lack of material problems that health care is free they have been checked since they were born for free and so on and so on so basically that the last layer which is the learning and education that really doesnt differ that much. From other well being countries i saw a comparison recently between finland on the one hand and america on the other by a couple of journalists and writers one of whom was american who was phyllis the molly a little wrote last school pointing out that although they paid much higher tax and phil and they went through the whole range of things that they didnt have to worry about when they wouldnt fill and because glee anxiety when they were in new york you for example childcare for example the Education System for example college fees and what you went through all these things are provided as part of the the finnish welfare system and that of course was a different balance between tax but the point that they made was put it when testing it was the lack of anxiety and fretting about these major the bills that were looming for families and the you york when they were in finland staying in finland little of the worry about thats right thats right you know in finland the population pays taxes to the government and government they scare of all of this and usually everything hes high quality child care schools Public Schools are very High Quality Health CarePublic Health care is very high quality in general i think one of the problems one coffin that is compared to other countries is that a small well being a country like finland with 5000000 people which would fully fit in many cities in the world is comp. 2 whole countries like if you compare it like indonesia or china or even the u. S. When in reality if you want to get more accurate comparison results you should compare finland to a city or or the well in part of a city then you would get a better result because here the quality is in this a small population you know its good but it has its limits if you would add 102150000 people who need social care the system will break it wont work anymore that brings us on to some of the the challenges that. Politics will face the new government will face how would you have allies and what are your readers tell you about the issues immigration for example is. An issue which is growing in importance in finland the question of the new language obligations of terms of sweet this is that something has been resisted by some say as the rise of the the populace rate the challenge the us political offer those in finland yes these are you know finland doesnt have many Huge National level problems immigration has always been a topic in politics the swedish language which you mentioned which has always been a 2nd official language of finland but now. One of the Coalition Parties the Swedish Peoples Party who actually runs on the agenda of swedish language they want to make it compulsory part of final exams of high schools. Which of course people dont like that but i think the there is not the big reaction because people know that the next government which most probably will be the right right wing parties will be a right Wing Coalition to the place to the left side until coalition you have the present moment yes i i think that most probably if nothing happens the next Prime Minister will be the leader of the finns party which is growing in popularity. The parties in finland really theyre the diversity of their opinions is not really far from each other its they are not really that much against each other there are a few issues that they disagree but on most of other issues out of on the welfare state and. On major issues they agree immigration is one of the issues that you know if you go to the fin spotting which is on the right they disagree they want much less immigration are the rules but the left says no we cant have more people coming like this i want to ask your question a quick show you can judge as a journalist so i lead a. Journalistic factual answer and that is for your readership in the Helsinki Time