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Centre-left narrowly wins Finnish elections
By EUobserver
The centre-left Social Democrats (SDP) won Sunday's elections in Finland by a narrow margin. The SDP received 17.7% of votes, closely followed by the far-right Finns Party (17.5%). The Centre Party (13.8%) of outgoing prime minister Juhu Sipila suffered a considerable defeat, losing a third of its supporters, and falling behind its junior coalition partner, the centre-right National Coalition Party (17%). Finland will be the EU presidency from 1 July.