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"First Greece, then Ireland and just before the election, Portugal: all this has come as a godsend for the True Finns" (Photo: Søren Sigfusson/norden.org)

Eurosceptic populism invades Finnish election

The Finnish general election is on Sunday 17 April. The election results are expected to be announced around midnight. These two items are about the only thing that can be said with certainty before this election. The advance of the anti-immigrant and eurosceptic populist True Finns Party, along with the crisis in the euro countries, has shaken up the country's political patterns.

As a rule, the difference in the traditional parties' electoral support has been a few percentage points at...

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Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media.

"First Greece, then Ireland and just before the election, Portugal: all this has come as a godsend for the True Finns" (Photo: Søren Sigfusson/norden.org)

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Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media.

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