During the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election, the Finns Party finished in second place with 46 seats, recording their strongest result since its founding.

Vennamo ran into serious disagreement with Arvo Korsimo, the Agrarian League's party secretary, and was excluded from the parliamentary group.

[26] According to political analyst Jan Sundberg, Soini had the ability to appeal to common people and make complicated things look easy.

[41] Sipilä and Minister of Finance Petteri Orpo soon announced that they would not continue their coalition with the Finns Party if it was led by Halla-aho.

[87][92] The party calls for a pro-industry environmental policy, opposing green tax reform and taxpayers' involvement in emission trading funds.

[87] The party strongly supports the peat industry, which produces massive amounts of greenhouse gases, having even proposed exempting this production from any tax.

The party has strongly denounced the Paris Agreement, signed in December 2015, saying it was "catastrophic" for the economy, and demanded that the private sector and taxpayers be spared its "disastrous economic consequences".

[101] A poll commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat at the time of the controversy found that a majority of Finns, 51%, agreed with the party's stance on ending subsidies for postmodern art.

In December 2011, an opinion poll revealed 51% of Finns Party voters agreed with the statement, "Joihinkin rotuihin kuuluvat ihmiset eivät kerta kaikkiaan sovi asumaan moderniin yhteiskuntaan;" "People of certain races are unable to live within (fit into) a modern society."

[113][114] In its latest platform, the Finns Party states that it supports a "European policy" based on appreciation for Western and Christian shaped values.

[111] In 2023, Halla-aho reiterated that the party's long-term goal is strategic preparation for a "Fixit" (Finnish exit) from the European Union and Eurozone, highlighting what he described as a "democratic deficit" within the EU while Foreign Trade Minister Ville Tavio stated the party will vote against joint-EU debt policies in government.

However, the party leadership stated that it also wished to strengthen European unity and cooperation in the meantime in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[87][88] However, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the party signaled a change to this policy and stated it was willing to back NATO membership.

In 2011, Finns party MP James Hirvisaari was fined 1,425 euro by the Kouvola Court of Appeals for comments he made on his blog about Muslims.

[127] A 2011 book by Swedish journalist Lisa Bjurwald made a similar characterization, that the party's leaders support racist positions, while publicly denying that they do so.

[128] In 2011, MP Pentti Oinonen declined an invitation to the presidential Independence Day ball, citing his aversion to seeing same-sex couples dance.

[129] Jussi Halla-aho, the previous leader of the party, a former MEP and now the Speaker of the House wrote that Somalis were genetically predisposed to rob passersby, wrote that he would be happy if a gang of immigrants raped a Green League MP, and commented "Violence is an underrated problem-solving tool these days," while pondering if he should shoot a gay man.

A number of senior Finns Party politicians, including Halla-aho and Immonen, are also Suomen Sisu members, an organization that Länsiväylä describes as a Nazi group.

[130] The website of Suomen Sisu has promoted books by Nazis and neo-Nazis such as Alfred Rosenberg, George Lincoln Rockwell and David Duke.

[131][132] In a judgement given on 8 June 2012, MP Jussi Halla-aho, then Chairperson of the Administration Committee was found guilty by the Supreme Court of both disturbing religious worship and ethnic agitation for statements he made about Muhammad in his blog.

[133] In October 2013, it was reported that MP James Hirvisaari, had invited far-right activist Seppo Lehto as his guest to the parliament.

An anti-mosque demonstration was supported by the youth branch of the PS, whose chair, Jarmo Keto, said that, "Islam as an ideology is responsible for many conflicts and terror attacks.

Two municipal-level politicians of the Finns Party have taken part in an event where the participants shot and threw knives at shooting targets, using photos of members of the Rinne Cabinet.

The Finns' General Secretary, Olli Immonen, attended an NRM event commemorating Eugen Schauman, who assassinated Nikolay Bobrikov.

[142][143][144] In 2020, the party sacked the youth wing's vice leader Toni Jalonen for declaring himself a fascist at a conference in Estonia.

[147][148][149] Finns Party MP Vilhelm Junnila spoke at an event organized in memory of victims of a terrorist attack in 2019.

[150][151] Viljam Nyman, a Finns Party Lapland area board member became a leader of the Atomwaffen Division's Finnish chapter and a prominent adherent to the satanic Order of Nine Angles (ONA).

The person born in 1980 is also suspected of sending a string of letter bombs to the Social Democratic, Green League and Left Alliance parties' offices.

[152][153][154] A Finns Party Espoo city council member Jiri Keronen told that he "avows" the teachings of ONA and that he is republishing their works.

[157] Former MEP Teuvo Hakkarainen, on the other hand, was expelled from the party because he stood as a candidate for the European Parliament on the Freedom Alliance's list.