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Central Reality reported that the Justice had prohibited the award of the title of citizen of Salvador to Flávio Bolsonaro, scheduled for Saturday (17), at Farol da Barra, with the presence of the presidential candidate. https://t.co/giDdssFETs #Justiça #Bahia #Política (translated)

StagePop reported that the Justice Department prohibited the delivery of the title of citizen of Salvador to Flávio Bolsonaro at Farol da Barra, in Salvador. According to the publication, the decision postponed the tribute until after the definitive end of the 2026 elections, suspended the temporary transfer of the City Council's headquarters to the location, and imposed a fine of R$ 500,000 in case of non-compliance. StagePop also stated that, according to the judge, holding the ceremony during the campaign could give a promotional character to the tribute and generate disproportionate public spending. #justiça #eleições2026 #Salvador (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi compared sports organizations to social welfare organizations and considered them to belong to a privileged sector of organizations. She wrote that the Ministry of Education and Culture granted a total of 1.28 million euros in subsidies to the Finnish Volleyball Association for the year 2026. According to Pihanurmi, the association's CEO, Karri Virtanen, engaged in efficient Porsche cars, among other things. Pihanurmi urged familiarity with the report from the National Audit Office for the year 2025. According to her, the audit office estimated that approximately 1.2 billion euros in state grants for sports were granted between 2015 and 2024, and identified significant shortcomings in the funding. Pihanurmi described the findings of the report as indicating that the grant policy had maintained old organizational structures and that sufficiently precise goals had not been defined for the grants. She also wrote that the grant criteria did not encourage effective use of funds or impact, and that the effectiveness of general grants had not been assessed for ten years. According to her, the wealth of organizations was inadequately considered in the assessment of grant needs, even though some sports federations were very financially solid. Pihanurmi reported that the report also criticized the fact that the financial risks related to the corporate structures of the organizations were not sufficiently considered, and that the inadequate guidance of general grants was compensated for by special grants. Additionally, Pihanurmi wrote that the distribution agreement from 2020 still affected the distribution of grants among organizational groups. According to her, municipalities had been granted overlapping funding for the same purposes as state funding for sports, and the Ministry of Education and Culture did not monitor whether the state funding for municipalities was used for activities defined by law. #liikunta #urheilu #valtionavustukset (translated)

Petteri Vaara criticized the government's decision to grant a 150 million euro tax support to Anglo American's subsidiary, Sakati, through Business Finland. According to him, the value of the metal deposits located in Viiankiaapa in Sodankylä, a Natura 2000 area, was tens of billions of euros: about 15 billion euros for copper and over ten billion euros for nickel, gold, and palladium. Vaara believed that the mining company would receive the extracted metals and the vast majority of the economic benefits, while the risks of the project would remain with nature and taxpayers. Vaara wrote that the state was preparing and partly funding mining projects but handed the responsibility for leading them to multinational companies. He also criticized the National Coalition Party member of parliament, Pia Kauma, who stated that protected nature calmed and comforted people, but metals were needed for batteries and electrical cables. Vaara mentioned that Sakati had met with several ministers, their assistants, and members of parliament and had used consultants from the law firm Borenius. Vaara claimed that 79 percent of Finns opposed mining in nature conservation areas. According to him, the government was pushing for the project to gain the status of an EU strategic raw materials initiative to expedite the permitting process. He also criticized Anglo American's plans to purchase old-growth forests in Inari and to restore drained wetlands to replace Viiankiaapa. Vaara referred to a statement from the Permit and Supervision Agency, which indicated that the actions proposed by the company were insufficient to mitigate the environmental harm of the project as required by the nature directive. https://t.co/spQ6nEoAhG #Suomi #Luonto #Kaivosteollisuus (translated)

Piia Metsähonkala wrote that the welfare area saved on intensive care and cancer medications. She compared this to the fact that welfare areas spent about 35.3 million euros on interpretation and translation services, referring to information published by Yle on May 19, 2025. #sote #priorisointi https://t.co/Ld05Chzh7F #hyvinvointi #terveydenhuolto #sote (translated)

Matti Viren wrote that one had to wait four weeks for an X-ray examination, even though public expenditure, according to him, was 58 percent of GDP. He also criticized the fact that the country could afford to send over a billion in development aid to the south and pay very high salaries to healthcare leaders, questioning how the country was being managed. https://t.co/f4UZs8v0RW https://t.co/Tys9xHI85z #terveydenhuolto #kehitysapu #poliikka (translated)

JK stated that he considered it important for people to come together, but doubted that this approach would help convince anyone. He said that most seemed to participate only for the atmosphere and that the focus should be on communication aimed at persuasion. #Comunicação #Convencimento #Unidade (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi criticized a multi-page interview published in Seura magazine, in which Demokraatti journalist Susanna Luikku interviewed Vertti Kiukas from Soste ry. According to Pihanurmi, Kiukas expected the leftist government to continue supporting 700 social and health organizations with hundreds of millions of tax euros. Pihanurmi wrote that the number of organization workers and volunteers varied in different Soste sources. He stated that Kiukas announced the number as 1.5 million, whereas earlier it had been reported as 550,000 and 204,271. Pihanurmi characterized the content of the interview as threats and baseless complaints. He claimed it aimed to secure the financing of the bloated sector and its jobs, which he believed were funded by Veikkaus. According to Pihanurmi, the article did not mention that the sector had grown over decades by misleading the poor and those with gambling problems. https://t.co/Inulcjd4lX #politiikka #järjestö #sote (translated)

Professor Paulus Torkki emphasizes in an interview with MTV that a more precise definition of social and healthcare services would be in the interest of all citizens, as the current hidden prioritization may lead to inequality in accessing care. #sote #terveydenhuolto #politiikka (translated)

Raimo Savipakka wrote that he agrees with Jari. He urged to reduce the public sector, development aid, and the status of the nobility, as well as to carry out municipal mergers and reduce the number of social and healthcare regions. According to Savipakka, pensions should not be touched, however. https://t.co/adBi50XaJ9 #Suomi #politiikka #talous (translated)

Representatives of the government left the social welfare and health committee meeting, which led to a decision not being made on the progress of the citizens' initiative regarding euthanasia, and Krista Kiuru criticized the situation as a gimmick. #Eutanasia #Politiikka #Kansalaisaloite (translated)

Riku-Mikael Leppänen wrote that net negative immigration in the United States was associated with a 90 percent reduction in border crossings, an increase in American employment, savings of tens of billions in the social and health services sector, a decrease in drug-related deaths by one fifth, and a drop in violent crime to its lowest level in a hundred years. He referenced Suomen Uutiset on October 7, 2026, as well as Suomen Perustaan / Ruotsilaan. #maahanmuutto #Yhdysvallat #talous (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for often choosing female journalists to incite moral panic, according to him. He interpreted Yle's analysis as showing that support for the National Coalition Party among women had dropped to 12 percent and that the Finns Party had surpassed this party. However, according to Mäkäräinen, women were not punishing the National Coalition Party for its policies but for its austerity measures, and men were supporting the state. Mäkäräinen believed that the decline in women's support was due to the impact of budget cuts on sectors predominantly employing women, such as social services, organizations, and public services. In his view, this did not make the cuts unjust, but rather highlighted their effects. He mentioned the Social Democratic Party, the Left Alliance, and the Centre Party as the most popular parties among women and claimed that the left proposed tax increases amounting to nine billion euros. According to Mäkäräinen, the costs of these increases would fall on men who work overtime, start businesses, and pay progressive taxes. Mäkäräinen assessed that the issue for the National Coalition Party was its attempt to soften difficult decisions, while the Finns Party spoke about the same issues more directly. He argued that men were underrepresented in the care sector and overrepresented in dangerous jobs, entrepreneurship, and at the high end of the tax revenue spectrum. In his opinion, the National Coalition Party should maintain its stance even if it lost some female support, as this could help it win over voters who support the sustainability of the state. https://t.co/DfwLyPN03s #Politiikka #NaistenOikeudet #Taloustieto (translated)