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  "title": "The Christian Democrats Rise, Feet on the Ground | Sari Essayah | Neuvottelija 185",
  "titleOriginal": "KD nousee jalat maassa | Sari Essayah | Neuvottelija 185",
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  "guest": "Sari Essayah",
  "publishedAt": "2023-03-31",
  "duration": "37:43",
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  "description": "Sari Essayah, leader of Finland's Christian Democrats, recorded two days before the April 2023 election on the morning her party passed the Swedish People's Party in Yle's final poll. The most durable observation is the coalition arithmetic: because every other party has announced who it will not govern with, the one that has ruled nobody out may become indispensable. Her criticism of Finnish EU influence is about timing rather than content — a national position should be moving when a directive is still a glint in the Commission's eye — and she applies the same demand for consistency to her own side, noting that Finnish MEPs split or were absent on votes their parties had taken positions on at home. On social security she proposes extending earnings-related unemployment benefit to everyone while tapering it, distinguishing that explicitly from shortening its duration, within a wider incentivising basic security run through the income register. She defends the home care allowance with a comparison rarely made and proposes shifting parenthood costs onto an insurance basis on the Swedish model, which would remove both hidden discrimination against young women and the need to police who is at home. Agriculture is framed as a question of security of supply, and taxing powers for the wellbeing services counties draw the episode's sharpest refusal.",
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      "t": "00:00",
      "title": "Introducing Sari Essayah; every guest standing as a candidate gets a return visit",
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      "t": "00:28",
      "title": "The Christian Democrats up 0.8 points in Yle's poll, past the Swedish People's Party",
      "seconds": 28
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    {
      "t": "01:27",
      "title": "Standing in Savo-Karelia as number 74. The Lapinlahti connection",
      "seconds": 87
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    {
      "t": "02:10",
      "title": "The party respects democracy and rules out no coalition partner",
      "seconds": 130
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    {
      "t": "03:09",
      "title": "The top three changing places; what advance votes mean for the party",
      "seconds": 189
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    {
      "t": "05:15",
      "title": "A centre-right conservative party, but close to the middle",
      "seconds": 315
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    {
      "t": "06:23",
      "title": "The government has to change — why is a change needed?",
      "seconds": 383
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      "t": "08:29",
      "title": "Have the Centre Party and the Swedish People's Party lost credibility in a left-green government?",
      "seconds": 509
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      "t": "09:30",
      "title": "The National Coalition losing ground to smaller parties; the Helsinki electoral alliance",
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      "t": "10:54",
      "title": "Is there an opposition in the EU? The government's lax EU policy",
      "seconds": 654
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      "t": "12:38",
      "title": "The EU nature restoration regulation, and coordinating influence",
      "seconds": 758
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    {
      "t": "16:47",
      "title": "Finland's high salaries are heavily taxed; the Social Democrats' capital tax plans",
      "seconds": 1007
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    {
      "t": "19:15",
      "title": "Essayah does not warm to a flat tax; earnings-related benefit must be reformed; work incentives matter",
      "seconds": 1155
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    {
      "t": "27:30",
      "title": "Strong regions; the party speaking for all of Finland; regional incentives",
      "seconds": 1650
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    {
      "t": "31:00",
      "title": "Taxing powers for the wellbeing services counties would not be fair, but reform is needed",
      "seconds": 1860
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    {
      "t": "34:40",
      "title": "Restoring the standing of Christian conservatism",
      "seconds": 2080
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    {
      "t": "36:47",
      "title": "Essayah on politics and race walking: the final sprint",
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