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Official mail in private digital mailboxes

Citizens will be able to receive electronic notifications and messages from public authorities not only in the Suomi.fi service but also in private digital mail services of their choice. This makes it possible to gather official mail and messages from private companies in the same application if desired.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Online alcohol sales and home delivery

Ordering alcohol for home delivery from Finnish shops, Alko and foreign online stores will be permitted. At the same time, online advertising of strong alcoholic beverages will be allowed.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Wider use of Incomes Register data

Municipal employment authorities and the KEHA Centre will obtain the right to make wider use of data from the Incomes Register. The change will streamline the targeting and monitoring of employment services as well as the disbursement of government grants.

Teemu Kinnari: No vote recorded

Valtion talousarvioksi vuodelle 2027

Teemu Kinnari: No vote recorded

Introducing a citizenship test

Obtaining Finnish citizenship will require knowledge of the functioning and basic principles of Finnish society. The required knowledge will be demonstrated through a passed citizenship test or certain studies completed in Finland.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Second supplementary budget for 2026

The second supplementary budget for 2026, meaning amendments to the central government budget for the current year. The votes mainly concern individual appropriation items and dissenting proposals submitted by the opposition.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Cutting and reforming county funding

Savings will be made in central government funding for wellbeing services counties, and the calculation criteria for the funding model will be reformed from 2027 onwards. The reform cuts compensation for the growth in service needs and transition balancing, while ensuring through a temporary balancing model that no county's funding falls below the previous year's level.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Digitalising and clarifying occupational disease notifications

Doctors' obligation to notify the occupational safety and health authority will be restricted solely to occupational diseases, and notifications will be transmitted electronically via Kanta services. Reporting other work-related illnesses will become voluntary, and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health will receive research data centrally from Kela.

Teemu Kinnari: No vote recorded

Restricting direct procurement from in-house companies

Rules on public procurement will be reformed to increase competition and save public funds. The use of in-house companies owned by the public sector will be restricted, and tendering procedures will more frequently have to be divided into lots so that small enterprises can also participate in them.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Easing corporate sustainability reporting

The size thresholds for companies' statutory sustainability reporting will be raised, meaning the reporting obligation will apply only to the very largest companies. At the same time, the position of small and medium-sized enterprises will be eased by limiting the amount of sustainability information that can be requested from them in supply chains.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Facilitating and accelerating nuclear power construction

Finland's nuclear energy legislation would be reformed to make building nuclear power plants and new small modular reactors easier and faster. At the same time, the safety of operations, proper final disposal of nuclear waste in Finland, and strict regulatory oversight would be ensured.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Tightening and speeding up asylum procedures

Finland is reforming its immigration and asylum legislation in line with the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. The reform tightens asylum procedures, speeds up the processing of applications, and makes the removal of rejected applicants more efficient.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Transferring ambulance transport from Kela

The financing and organisation of ambulance transport will be transferred entirely from Kela to the wellbeing services counties from the beginning of 2028. At the same time, client fees for health and social services will begin to be increased annually in line with cost developments in the wellbeing services counties.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Abolishing data centre electricity tax relief

Electricity tax relief for data centres will be abolished and the electricity used by data centres will be transferred to the general tax category. This will raise the tax on electricity used in data centres from 0.05 cents to 2.24 cents per kilowatt-hour.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Preventing pregnancy and family leave discrimination

The Act on Equality between Women and Men will be amended to prevent discrimination based on pregnancy and family leave in working life. Employers will be required to provide a fixed-term employee with a written explanation for not renewing an employment relationship if the employee has given notification of pregnancy or family responsibilities.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Permitting barnacle goose and cormorant hunting

Barnacle geese and cormorants could be shot directly by virtue of the law to prevent agricultural and fisheries damage and flight safety risks. Meat from shot birds could be used for personal consumption, but selling it would be prohibited.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Reforming residential tenancy rules

Legislation on residential and commercial leases will be reformed to clarify lease relationships and reduce disputes. The changes will facilitate electronic communication, shorten the landlord's notice period, and introduce new rules on, among other things, the return of deposits and smoking.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Speeding up enforcement of deportations

Deportation decisions will be enforceable faster than at present, and lodging an appeal will no longer automatically prevent removal from the country. In addition, an entry ban can be imposed on a person posing a security threat before they enter the country.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes

Protecting partial early old-age pensions

A partial early old-age pension granted before 16 January 2026 will not reduce the general support received by an unemployed person. The change rectifies the situation for persons who, when making their pension decision, did not know that it would affect the amount of the new general support.

✓Teemu Kinnari: Yes