It was formed following the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election and succeeds the Marin cabinet led by the Social Democrats and was formally appointed by President Sauli Niinistö on 20 June 2023.

[5] On 27 June 2023, the Green League, Left Alliance, and Social Democratic Party decided to propose a vote of no confidence against Vilhelm Junnila due to his connections to far-right extremism.

[6] Ahead of the vote, the leader of the Swedish People's Party, Anna-Maja Henriksson, suggested that the Finns could replace Junnila with another person.

[8] Purra commented afterwards that the Swedish People's Party's decision to vote against their minister had "wounded the government" and that similar conduct could not continue in the future.

[14] According to researcher Niko Pyrhönen, the use of the term "väestönvaihto" is not an accident, but a very conscious choice, as there are countless other expressions that could be used to talk about the changing population of Finland.

[15] The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service considers the Great Replacement conspiracy theory one of the most noteworthy ideological motivators of far-right terrorism.

Among the bunch were certain politicians from the governing parties, including MPs Sebastian Tynkkynen, Wille Rydman from the Finns and Tere Sammallahti from the NCP.

[20] Erämaa was supported by the Union of Journalists in Finland and the Association of Editors, among others, who urged the politicians of the Finns and National Coalition Party to respect the freedom of the press.

[21] On 6 July, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, released a statement in which she called on the Finnish authorities "…to clearly condemn the smear campaign and any violent online threats made against journalist Ida Erämaa, to investigate the incident and provide any assistance that she may need”.

[22] In July 2023, Purra's online comments written prior to her political career, on Jussi Halla-aho's Scripta blog in January–October 2008, emerged in the news media.

[27] Soon after, Purra's newer writings from 2019 started to circulate on social media, in which she referred to women in the burqa as "unrecognizable black bags" in the context of criticizing the clothing practice as dehumanizing and mysogynistic.