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The Finns will vote for a new prime minister and a new government in this weekend's general election. The results will be announced on Sunday, April 14th. While one party appears to be ahead in the polls, none has received support from more than 20% of voters – an unusual situation according to badysts.
The Finnish parliamentary elections are held in exceptional circumstances.
The entire government resigned due to missed promises about the country's troubled health system.
Although current Prime Minister Juha Sipila remains in office while the country chooses its next leader, the results are unpredictable.
Who will win the election of Finland?
According to a poll conducted by Ylle on April 11, the Social Democratic Party is leading the poll with a support of 19%.
The SDP is followed by the Finnish nationalist party, which ranks second with 16.3% support.
Then the center-right National Coalition Party (NCP) took third place with 15.9% of the vote.
If the Finnish Social Democrats win the parliamentary elections on Sunday, it will be for the first time in 20 years.
The party is committed to raising taxes to fund the country's generous welfare system, which is struggling to cope with a rapidly aging population.
Antti Rinne's Social Democrats have been leading polls for almost a year. Many Finns are worried about the future of public services and social protection, partly because of the cost of caring for its growing ranks of pensioners.
"We need to strengthen our welfare society – and that requires money," Rinne, a former union leader, told Reuters in an interview ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections.
The last time the left-wing Social Democratic Party (SDP) won the legislative elections was in 1999, although it has since been a junior partner in different government coalitions.
It surpbaded the latest poll with 19.0% support, Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported on Thursday.
But the party would still need to form a coalition to form a stable government.
"We need to expand our tax base and we need to strengthen it – it's a big policy shift here in Finland if we do," Rinne said.
One of Rinne's election promises was to increase by 100 euros all public pensions lower than 1,400 euros a month, a 700 million euros reform that would help "more than 55,000 retirees out of the labor market. poverty, "he said.
But the solvency of taxpayers could have its limits in the coming years, not only because of the rising costs of taking care of a population that is aging rapidly, but also because Finland will have to spend about 7 to 10 Billion euros for the renewal of its fleet of combat aircraft just as aging.
To Rinne's disappointment, the Finnish nationalist party is currently in second place in the polls.
The Finnish party made significant gains ahead of its traditional opponent of the SDP, the center-right national coalition, in the latest Yle poll.
If the SDP wins on Sunday, he will have to team up with at least one of his major rivals, such as the chairman of the National Coalition and Finance Minister, Petteri Orpo, who described as "irresponsible" the party economic policy – or with the Party of Sipila center. , to be able to form a majority government.
SDP leader Rinne has ruled out forming a government with nationalists led by Jussi Halla-aho, an anti-immigration extremist, fined by the Supreme Court in 2012 for blog comments linking Islam to pedophilia and Somalis in flight.
Finland faces a rare minority government, with the current tripartite coalition government controlling a slim majority in parliament with 104 out of 200 seats.
The winner of this year's elections will need at least 101 MPs to form a new government.
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