Three Opposition Parties Demand Government to Account for Increasing Poverty: "Unpatriotic"

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The red-green opposition is asking the government a question about poverty and the rising cost of living.

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The interpellation refers to Statistics Finland, which estimates that 958,000 people, or 17.3 percent of the population, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2024. The parliamentary groups of the Left Alliance, the Social Democratic Party, and the Greens submitted an interpellation to the government of Petteri Orpo (Kok) on poverty and the increase in the cost of living this morning. Its first four questions are: