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Riikka Purra rejects the left's alternative, namely the cancellation of savings, higher tax increases and huge mass immigration. The main opposition parties, the Social Democratic Party and the Centre Party, both proposed, as usual, both the cancellation of the government's savings and higher tax increases than the government. They will compensate for the deficits caused by their decisions by significantly increasing immigration. Would Finland rise with these means? The alternative budgets were discussed in the plenary session of Parliament on 27 November 2024. Minister of Finance Riikka Purra also offered her response to the opposition's alternatives in her seven-minute speech. Purra reminded us in her speech that the SDP, which has been shouting a lot about savings on subsidies and labor market reforms, will accept a large part of the measures it previously opposed in its own alternative budget. The mood seems to have changed, although just a moment ago the SDP accused the government of labor market chaos. Now chaos is also acceptable for the SDP's alternative.