- Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:47 pm
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Reading this I'm not sure if this is good or bad news
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ection-win
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ection-win
Finland is heading towards a broad but potentially fragile left-right coalition government after the Social Democrats came top for the first time in 20 years.
The centre-left SDP looks set to keep out the nationalist Finns party, which it beat by just 6,800 votes, and is likely instead to try to form a government with parties of the left and centre-right.
The SDP, led by Antti Rinne, a 56-year-old former trade union leader, will have 40 MPs in a fragmented 200-seat Eduskunta (parliament) after winning 17.7% of the vote after a fierce anti-austerity campaign.
Nevertheless, the far-right, anti-immigration and increasingly radical Finns party did better than expected, winning 17.5% and 39 seats – almost exactly the same as its total in elections in 2011 and 2015, but significantly more than it might have hoped for earlier this year.
Don't give me the Star Trek crap. it's too early in the morning.
Dave Lister, philosopher.
Dave Lister, philosopher.