芬兰总理表态：绝不接受！
双语君约 3 分钟据法新社12月17日报道，芬兰总理奥尔波16日指出，有关“芬兰小姐”因种族歧视事件被剥夺桂冠的丑闻（此前报道），以及多位芬兰政客随后以“声援”为名模仿歧视动作的行为，正在损害芬兰的形象。
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Tuesday that a racism scandal that saw the country's Miss Finland being stripped of her crown and several politicians posting derogatory images was damaging his country's image.
derogatory /dɪˈrɑːɡətɔːri/ adj. 贬低的，贬义的
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“在议会辩论中，我就提到过这件事已经损害了我们的国家形象。事实也确实如此。”奥尔波16日在与邻国领导人举行峰会间隙对记者说。“就我个人而言，我绝不接受任何形式的种族主义。”他表示。
"Yesterday, during a debate in parliament, I said that this has caused damage to our country. That is certainly the case," Orpo told reporters on Tuesday at the sidelines of a summit gathering leaders of European countries near or bordering Russia.
"Personally, I do not accept racism in any form," he said.
因做出“眯眯眼”鬼脸这一恶意丑化亚洲人的动作，陷入种族歧视风波的“芬兰小姐”莎拉·扎夫斯11日已被赛事组委会取消头衔，其本人也为此道歉。然而，这场闹剧并未平息，反而在芬兰政界持续发酵。
多名芬兰政客“力挺”扎夫斯种族歧视行为
据芬兰《赫尔辛基日报》，在莎拉被赛事组委会取消头衔当日，芬兰一些右翼政客就开始做“小动作”。右翼民粹主义政党“芬兰人党”议员尤霍·埃罗拉（Juho Eerola）、凯莎·加雷德（Kaisa Garedew）以及该党欧洲议会议员塞巴斯蒂安·廷基宁（Sebastian Tynkkynen）跳出来哗众取宠。他们三人均在社交媒体上声援扎夫斯，发布类似涉嫌种族歧视的自拍照。
Two MPs, Kaisa Garedew and Juho Eerola, and EMP Sebastian Tynkkynen from the right-wing populist Finns Party — one of the ruling parties in Finland's coalition government — later posted images of themselves on social media doing the same gesture, saying it was in support of Dzafce and criticising the organisation for stripping her of her title.
据法新社，16日，芬兰议会各党团主席联合谴责了涉事“芬兰人党”议员发布的上述内容。
奥尔波所属的民族联合党党团主席尤卡·科普拉向记者表示：“这类事情不该发生，现在不该，将来也不该。”他批评这些帖子“有损形象”“不恰当”，并称其严重影响了芬兰的声誉。
The government's parliamentary group chairpersons on Tuesday jointly condemned the posts made by their colleagues.
"This should not have happened. Not now and not in the future," Jukka Kopra, the National Coalition Party's parliamentary group chairman, told reporters, calling the posts "derogatory" and "inappropriate" and undermining Finland's reputation.
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