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2023-04-01 Europe
Finland's 'rock star' PM Sanna Marin looks set to LOSE Sunday's general election
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Finnish politics could dramatically shift to the far-Right on Sunday as an anti-immigration party aims to replace Sanna Marin's Social Democrats Party.

The 'rock star' prime minister, who took office in 2019 as the world's youngest PM at 34, has proved to become one of Finland's most popular leaders, polls show.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
latest figures put the mother-of-one's centre-Left SDP in third place behind the anti-immigration and nationalist Finns Party and the centre-Right National Coalition Party, which held on to a thin lead.

'It is a very exciting situation and it's hard to say at the moment which party will be the biggest on election day,' Tuomo Turja of the polling firm Taloustutkimus told AFP.

A win for the far-Right Finns Party, and a far-Right prime minister, would be a first in Finland - but the party has previously served in government in a coalition. It currently looks set to top its record 19 per cent from the 2011 election.

Posted by Fred 2023-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

#1 Only lefty pols are ever described as "rockstar", and is a sure sign of inexperience and incompetence.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-04-01 11:47||   2023-04-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems like Finland would not be a desirable destination for African migrants.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-01 11:49||   2023-04-01 11:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder what its like to be the third wheel.

I know, let's ask her husband.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-04-01 11:52||   2023-04-01 11:52|| Front Page Top

#4 "Rising star" is my favorite thing to read about any leftist.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-01 11:52||   2023-04-01 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll take Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force instead, thank you very much.
Posted by Raj 2023-04-01 12:01||   2023-04-01 12:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Good stuff, Raj. Listen to Dream Theater too.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-01 12:08||   2023-04-01 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 #1 Rex Mundi nailed it.
Posted by Tom 2023-04-01 12:39||   2023-04-01 12:39|| Front Page Top

#8 M. Murcek - nice call. Keep 'em coming!
Posted by Raj 2023-04-01 18:09||   2023-04-01 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I seem to remember a Finnish heavy metal band won EuroVision some years ago.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-04-01 20:21||   2023-04-01 20:21|| Front Page Top

#10 ...before that thing Conchita Wurst, of course.

@#1&4 - And for a guy on the 'right', he's always a "strong man".
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-04-01 20:24||   2023-04-01 20:24|| Front Page Top

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