One way of improving the position of the neutrality suspected to have been favourable to the Soviet Union in some of the NATO countries like Germany, UK and USA was to organise CSCE in Helsinki in 1975 which had been prepared in various forms since 1969 in the ministry for foreign affairs of Finland.

Kekkonen did not want to have elections where his political opponents could criticize his foreign policies publicly just before CSCE.

On 8 September 1972, 12 members of the parliamentary group of the Rural Party of Finland walked out from the meeting.

With the revision of the party law, the economic positions of the 12 MPs was guaranteed for the general elections of the year 1975.

Veikko Vennamo called those who backed the law and had left his party "the banknote spined" (eg.