Helsingin Sanomat carries a story about a candidate in April's parliamentary election who was given a three and a half year jail sentence for attempted manslaughter.
Christian Kautto is a candidate for the Blue and Black movement, a Finns Party offshoot that recalls the colours of interwar fascist formations in Finland.
In 2019 he was convicted after attacking a man with a knife, causing five stab wounds. The two had been in a fight, but the court ruled Kautto could not have feared for his life as several people were trying to intervene at the time.
HS had previously published news on Ville Nurmela, another of the party's candidates, who had a string of convictions including one for vandalising a synagogue. He had previously operated in the now-banned neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement.
The Blue and Black movement was formed in 2021 by former members of the Finns Party, and adopts ethnonationalist positions.
The Ministry of Justice originally considered the party's programme anti-democratic and opposed to freedom of expression, and demanded revisions before they could officially join the party register.
NCP partners
Meanwhile several outlets cover a poll by the centre-right EVA think tank on possible coalition formations. The poll says that 23 percent of respondents wanted a National Coalition-Finns Party partnership, while 19 percent would prefer a Social Democrat-NCP led government.
Neither result gets close to the combined support the parties are currently polling, which suggests that voters are struggling to find other parties they would not mind working with.
Some 24 percent of respondents said they hoped the next Prime Minister would be the NCP leader, while 23 percent suggested they would like it to be an SDP politician.
Cold spell
Ilta-Sanomat looks at the colder weather currently dominating Finland. This week Finland's most northern municipality Utsjoki recorded the coldest temperature of the winter so far, and IS reports that the winter's cold record has occurred in March on only three previous occasions since 1959.
That weather is set to continue, with temperatures as low as -25 expected in the north this week, with the coldest southern temperatures set to be -15.
There is also an unusual amount of snow in the forecast, for such a cold spell. On Wednesday some 15 centimetres could fall in the south, with another larger snow storm set to blow in over the weekend.
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