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It's a political tradition that parties in government have a free hand at selecting their own ministers, and I guess that the Finns Party was bound by one of its factions or regional politics to put Junnila in. It's pretty confusing, since the party actually had an obvious alternative - even before this they were planning to only have Junnila as this minister for two years and then replace him with MP Sakari Puisto who has obtained a Ph.D (in Physics) from Cambridge and is basically considered by the rest of the political sphere to be the most competent and moderate politician the party has.
Of course, it's very possible the party has specifically wanted to test a reaction to a controversial politician like this to expand the Overton window and force the other parties in government to co-sign the idea that having made comments like this won't shut you out of the government - and since they're populists, they might also instinctively distrust Puisto precisely since the other parties like him and would prefer him.
Do they have a large number of politicians who openly praise Hitler that they would like to put in government positions?
They've got many politicians who have generally made very outlandish comments on a variety of topics, though the rest of their currently selected ministers don't belong to this category.
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