Finns Party MP Hirvisaari's assistant resigns
An assistant to Finns Party parliamentarian James Hirvisaari is to resign. Helena Eronen who blogged that foreigners and other minorities should wear Nazi-style armbands so that police could identify them said she was resigning of her own accord.
She made the announcement on the Uusi Suomi net site.
Eronen's blog entry has led to MP Hirvisaari's expulsion from the party's parliamentary group until mid-September. At the time he defended his assistant's posting and he refused to sack her.
Eronen said she considered herself to be "the wrong girl in the wrong room."
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