Apr 02, 2023 10:28 p.m
Boom in Riikka Purra’s far-right, which rises to its highest point in history and becomes the country’s second-biggest political force
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at Choose deputies one Finland the National Coalition Party (Kok) wins under leadership Petteri Orpo: With 97.7% of the votes counted, the centre-right party is at 20.7%. Follows the Real Finns’ far right, led by the leader Riikka Purra, which is growing to its highest level in history, hitting 20.1%. The popularity of the outgoing Prime Minister was not enough for the Social Democrats, who still had 19.9%. SannaMarinewho gave up.
“Congratulations to the election winner, congratulations to the National Coalition, congratulations to the Finns Party, democracy has spoken,” the 37-year-old leader told her supporters.
The distribution of seats In the vote to renew Eduskunta, the centre-right party is credited with 48 seats out of a total of 200, the national-populist and Eurosceptic party 46. The party of the outgoing prime minister is likely to get 43. The photo A few hours after the polls closed, however, difficult negotiations to form a coalition that will back the government in the face of various vetoes by some forces during the election campaign loomed.
Both Marin’s Social Democrats and Orpo’s centre-right party have grown significantly compared to 2019, in a vote that split the country between for and against social cuts or austerity measures to reduce debt amid skyrocketing inflation and fears of recession . All parties in the coalition supporting the young prime minister lost votes to this polarization, with a debacle from the Greens and only the center staying above expectations (12.5%), which will be crucial for forming a coalition in even an MP makes a difference. In 2019, the SPD led by just one seat over Purra (with 17.7% versus 17.5% for the True Finns).
The vote in Finland comes just days after the latest launch of historic NATO accession, with ratification in Turkey on Thursday, but the issue is so widespread it has stayed out of the debate. 37-year-old Marin, well-known abroad, very popular at home, also thanks to exemplary handling of the pandemic, pushed the Social Democrats to the left in the election campaign, relies on welfare and, above all, on education, which she believes is capable of promoting prosperity of the country instead attributes the rise in public debt only to the pandemic and crisis in Ukraine and says she is opposed to any spending cuts.
The Orpo coalition is calling for austerity measures of 6 billion euros to bring the public debt back to the virtuous values of the EU. The Real Finns instead take openly anti-immigration and Eurosceptic positions, starting with calls for defaulting on the 2035 carbon neutrality commitment, without denying Fixit’s old long-term goal of Finland’s exit from the European Union.
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