Orpo (on the right in the photo) and Riikka (on the left) got first and second place, while Sanna Marin (center) was content with third place. Author: Reuters

HELSINKI, 3 April. A hard-fought election in Finland was won by the right when Petteri Orpo’s Kokoomus (National Coalition Party) won last Sunday night, taking 48 out of 200 parliamentary seats and being able to form a coalition. get a majority and has already announced that it is going to “start open negotiations with all parties.”

In Finland, which traditionally has a majority in Eduskunta, the country’s parliament is responsible for forming the government after negotiations with other parties, France24 explained.

Riikka Purra, leader of the far-right, anti-immigration and Eurosceptic True Finns party, thanked her supporters for second place with 46 seats: “Dear and beloved Finns, do you know what you have done? You have achieved the best result in history for this party,” he said, and an alliance with Orpo can be given because, according to Finland’s proportional representation system, it is necessary that there be a coalition that will collect more than half of the 200 seats to govern the country.

Incumbent Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democratic Party SDP won 43 seats and became the third largest political force in Finland, despite gaining three more seats in the legislature. However, together with the Swedish Minority People’s Party, the only one of the five allies in the current government coalition that did not lose popular support, they could not hold on: the Greens lost seven of their 20 seats, and the Left Alliance lost five seats. their seats are 16 seats.

However, the big loser of the day was the Center Party, one of the country’s most traditional political forces, which lost eight of its 31 MPs, gaining 11.3 percent, the worst result in its history, according to EuroNews.

This election marks the request of this country, which shares a 1,300-kilometer border with Russia, to join NATO, which represents a radical change from its historical neutrality. On March 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he was giving the green light to Finland’s entry into NATO, and the Turkish parliament approved this.

The NCP, which has led the polls from the start, has vowed to cut government spending to reduce the country’s debt and bring inflation down to less than 3 percent, as it was before the outgoing government. The debt was precisely the object of the opposition’s attacks, since during the reign of Marin it increased by almost ten points of GDP.

Source: Juventud Rebelde