Finland’s results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party.

Leftist leader Li Andersson received more votes than any other candidate has ever received in a European election.

  • boredtortoiseOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    15 days ago

    They also have a (lesser than the neighbor) far-right government

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      15 days ago

      I didn’t know that, thank you for informing me! Hopefully the new government can succeed in undoing any damage done by the previous government.