Regionaalisten
Regionaalisten is a Finnish term that refers to people or groups who advocate regionalism, the political idea of granting greater autonomy or powers to subnational regions within a country. The form regionaalisten is the genitive plural (or sometimes partitive) of regionaalinen/regionaaliset, and it is used in sentences such as regionaalisten vaatimukset (the demands of the regionalists) or to describe the regionalists as a group.
In political and academic contexts, regionalists emphasize governance and identity at the regional level rather than
Usage and tone vary: in neutral scholarship, regionaalisten refers descriptively to advocates of regionalism; in media
See also: regionalism, decentralization, autonomy movements.