#FINLAND: Conservatives To Take Power After Parliamentary Elections

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Finland headed to the polls on Sunday and ousted once-popular Prime Minister Sanna Marin from office in the country's parliamentary elections, denying her a second term as the government.

Marin was looking to win re-election by keeping her liberal Social Democrats party in power. However, with 97.7% of the votes tallied, it was the conservative National Coalition party emerging victorious with 20.7%. In second place was the far-right, nationalist Finns party with 20.1 percent, with the Social Democrats garnering 19.9%.

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#FINLAND: Parliament To Debate NATO Membership

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Finnish MPs will debate how to handle a petition calling for a vote on NATO membership on Tuesday as a poll showed a historic change in attitude in the traditionally non-aligned country after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Prime Minister Sanna Marin said in a Twitter post Monday evening that a planned debate in parliament the following day would cover the situation in Ukraine and was not intended as a "wider conversation on Finland's policy regarding military alignment or non-alignment".

But she added that since a citizen's petition requesting a parliament debate on a referendum had reached the necessary 50,000 signatories to trigger a debate in Parliament.

Russia has recently threatened both Finland and Sweden with consequences if it aligned itself with the West following the invasion. Such threats, ironically, have seemingly quickly moved public opinion towards a NATO alliance.

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#FINLAND: Transportation Minister, 34, To Be Nation's Youngest Ever PM

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Sanna Marin, Finland’s 34-year-old transportation minister, has been selected as the country’s prime minister, making her the youngest leader to ever hold the job, and the world’s youngest sitting PM. M

She will be taking over from Antii Rinne, who resigned from the position last week after just six months on the job, following controversy over his handling of a postal strike.

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