Talk:Centre Party (Finland)

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I think that

Maalaisliitto 1906-1965 could be translated in English as "Agrarian League"
Keskustapuolue1965-198? could be translated in English as "Centre Party"
Suomen Keskusta 198?- could be translated in English as "Finnish Centre Party"

"Finnish Centre Party" may differ from Centern i Finland, which is The Center (Party) "in Finland" or better write"of Finland".

http://www.eduskunta.fi/ uses

Finnish Centre Party The Social Democratic Parliamentary Group National Coalition Party Left Alliance Green Parliamentary Group Swedish Parliamentary Group Christian Democratic Parliamentary Group True Finns Party

liberal

I see the word liberal mentioned in the article several times, but how is this word being used? Is it used to mean a free market, or social liberalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.36.29 (talk) 22:13, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Centre Party likes to present itself as a finnish "liberal" party but the truth is more complex. They have lots of socially conservative agrarian supporters (in contrast to the "liberal city-dwellers" of other parties) and many of their economical position are on par with the social democrats. And since even the "right-wing" National Coalition Party supports vast social security and welfare state system, the Centre Party cannot definitely be considered to be a classical liberal or free market party.

Almost the whole article should anyways be rewritten since it sounds like it was taken from the party website or something. Consider this: "Instead, liberalism is found in most major parties including the Centre Party, which supports decentralization, free will, free and fair trade, and small enterprise." How can one support restricting the trade (fair trade) and not restricting it (free trade) at the same time? 62.78.227.13 (talk) 12:34, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]