World Politics

Which sounds bad (and is bad) but is still an example of where Finland is doing better than just about anywhere else on earth.

That report points out that definitions are hard, and that poverty is defined as being in relation to the median income, but it breaks it down into deciles: the bottom three deciles are grouped as “low” income, the top three as “high”, the middle four as “mid”. In a household where at least one person has a disability, 38.4% are in the Low income group, and 19.1% in the High group, but if there is no person with a disability in the household, then it’s 18.5% in Low and 36.8% in High. (Figure Income.4)

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BBC News - Two Iranian women arrested for not covering hair after man attacks them with yoghurt

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And I’m guessing this might be the start of a crack down on women going without hijab… I think they believe that the protests have fizzled out and they can re-assert the modesty laws now.

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Cross post

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ETA Latin Tour.

Two presidents in South America can be ousted soon.

The Honeymoon is over

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Is It accurate?

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Kok = Right
PS = far-right
SDP = center-left
Kesk= center-right
Vihr= greens
Vas = left
RKP = The Swedish People’s Party of Finland (center liberal)
KD = right
Liik = right
Muut (others) = Åland Coalition (center liberal?)

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The two biggest parties need to be closer together, but other than that it seems accurate!

(And in Germany the greens are actually a real party with real party numbers, but that’s the exception rather than the rule)

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That’s a whole lotta right there.

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And an uncomfortable amount of far right.

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They’re also missing "small single issue party that nobody out of this specific country has ever heard of ", “More autonomy for our Nation / Region / Linguistic group” and “Second left wing party who split from the first left-wing party over tiny ideological difference”.

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