MPs to discuss Halla-aho's fate as committee head
Parliamentarians are piling pressure on the Finns Party to reconsider their MP Jussi Halla-aho's position as head of a parliamentary committee dealing with immigration policy.
Parliamentary group chairs are planning to re-evaluate Halla-aho's chairmanship of the committee. The move follows the controversial MP's disrespectful statements about the Supreme Court, which recently found him guilty of hate speech on his blog.
Jan Vapaavuori of the National Coalition Party said he disapproved of Halla-aho's opinion that a judgement from Finland's Supreme Court was merely "the personal interpretation of a few people."
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