In Finland, the candidate of the National Coalition Party (Saml), Alexander Stubb, the country’s former Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, is provisionally ahead in the presidential election. Finnish TV channel reports this So.
So far, 80 percent of the votes have been processed, according to the channel. 27.4 percent of citizens voted for Stubb, 25.2 percent for Green League member and former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto, and 18.5 percent for Jussi Halla-, former head of the far-right Finnish Party. gave. aha.
The material shows that 15.7% of the votes were collected by the governor of the Bank of Finland, Olli Rena, a member of the Finnish Center group. The remaining candidates scored below 10%.
On Sunday morning, January 28, polling stations opened across Finland for the start of the first round of the presidential election. Nine candidates are running for president, but there are only two favorites: Stubb and Haavisto. The main theme of the elections was the conflict with Russia against the backdrop of the conflict in Ukraine. Who could be Finland’s new president and how will the outcome of the vote affect the country’s relations with Moscow? “Newspapers.Ru”.
Former presidential candidate of Finland statedHe said he would not communicate with Russian officials.