10 Facts About Vilhelm Junnila

Vilhelm Junnila is currently a member in three committees: the Constitutional Law Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Intelligence Oversight Committee.

Vilhelm Junnila was elected to the parliament in 2019 with 10,788 personal votes.

On 30 June, Vilhelm Junnila announced that he would resign, making his term as a government minister one of the shortest in the political history of Finland since Lennart Oesch, who served as deputy Minister of Internal Affairs for 12 days in 1932.

In between 2019 and 2022, Vilhelm Junnila made four budgetary motions in order to support Veljesapu-Perinneyhdistys, a Finnish organization that cherishes the heritage of the Finnish volunteers in the Waffen-SS.

Vilhelm Junnila wrote in his motion, that the support would be "for the promotion of balanced historical research".

In December 2021, Vilhelm Junnila joined to make a statement together with eight other parliament members who condemned Veronika Honkasalo's initiative to boycott Israel's import products.

In 2019, Vilhelm Junnila was the featured speaker at a memorial to the victims of the 2017 Turku terrorist attack, 188 Kukkavirta, organized by the far-right umbrella organization Coalition of Nationalists consisting of the vigilante Soldiers of Odin and Nordic Resistance Movement militias since banned in Finland.

Vilhelm Junnila commented on a photo circulating on social media, allegedly a Facebook photo posted by Vilhelm Junnila to his aide in 2014, that depicts a snowman holding a hangman's noose and with a head resembling a Ku Klux Klan hood, with a caption wishing for a white Christmas as being part of a parodied clip from the 2004 film Downfall ridiculing the person responsible for the snowman.

Notably, Ben Zyskowicz, the only Jewish MP, whose father survived Nazi concentration camps and whose government coalition party National Coalition supported Vilhelm Junnila, bucked the process to avoid giving his vote of confidence to Vilhelm Junnila.

Vilhelm Junnila was present in the chamber but refrained from voting, and his vote was marked as absent.