An accusation regarding seeking asylum has arisen between the Greens and SDP.
The recrimination between SDP and the Greens started with Antti Lindtman’s statement in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat. Miia Sirén
A quarrel has arisen between the Greens and the SDP that is full of accusations.
The matter concerns the changes regarding the asylum seeker and the parties’ lines on the matter.
Over the past few days, SDP chairman Antti Lindtman, Green party chairman Sofia Virta and SDP parliamentary group vice-chair Piritta Rantanen have made mutual accusations.
Both the Greens and SDP approved the amendments to the Border Guard Act in the government in 2022. This year, the majority of SDP approved Petteri Orpon (kok) the government’s so-called conversion law, which the Greens opposed.
According to the Democrats, the Greens have changed their line after joining the opposition. According to Virra, for the SDP led by Lindtman, for example, human rights are not an “inviolable value”. Rantanen condemns Virtra’s bottling as requiring “intellectual acrobatics”.
Lindtman for HS: “The line changed”
The gossip started over the weekend, when SDP chairman Antti Lindtman, in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat, accused his party’s former government partners, the Greens and the Left Alliance, of changing the line.
The parties agreed together in the government of Sanna Marin (sd) that the border can be closed. Lindtman believes that the Greens and the Left Alliance in the opposition have changed their line when they opposed the so-called conversion law.
According to Lindtman, SDP cannot afford such a thing.
– That is, that while in the government, legislation can be pushed through, which makes it possible to suspend asylum applications completely at the eastern border. And then when we go to the opposition, we change the line, Lindtman said according to HS.
Sofia Virta rejects Lindtman’s accusations and in turn criticizes SDP. TIINA SOMERPURO
Virta: The question is worthy
Sofia Virta responded to Lindtman’s criticism in her press release on Tuesday.
According to Virra, the Greens could approve the changes to the Border Guard Act in the government because they were in accordance with international law, the constitution and human rights treaties.
– The changes to the Border Guard Act of 2022 were made at the request of the Greens specifically so that they did not violate the principles of the Constitution and international law, Virta says in the press release.
According to Virta, the Transfer Act is “in blatant contradiction with the Finnish Constitution, EU law and international agreements”.
In his statement, described as a “view” in the press release, Virta states that the Greens and SDP have a principled difference in the matter.
– The line of the Greens is always in accordance with human rights, the constitution and international agreements. For the SDP led by Lindtman, these values do not seem to be inviolable. However, that is their business, Virra is reported to have said.
According to Piritta Rantanen, the thinking presented by Sofia Virra requires “intellectual acrobatics”. OUTI LAKE
Rantanen: Same thing
Piritta Rantanen, the vice-president of SDP’s parliamentary group, responded to Sofia Virta’s press release with her own press release later on Tuesday.
According to Rantanen, from the asylum seeker’s point of view, the amendments to the Border Guard Act and the Conversion Act are about one and the same thing.
– You can always find differences in tone in legislation, but from the point of view of an asylum seeker, at the border you either get to submit an asylum application or you don’t. I don’t think they are very interested in which legislative solution will be used to prevent that, says Rantanen.
According to Rantanen, both solutions are basically about Russia’s actions and the fact that it is necessary that asylum seekers on the eastern border can be prevented under certain conditions.
– It requires quite a bit of intellectual acrobatics from Sofia Virra to explain that closing the border to asylum seekers under one law is unproblematic from a human rights point of view, and on the other hand, closing the border under another law would be against human rights, says Rantanen.
Rantanen states that, however, several legal scholars also raised doubts about its relationship with human rights treaties in connection with the 2022 Border Guard Act.
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