{"id":125236,"date":"2024-02-09T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finnish-presidential-candidate-surprised-at-renewed-focus-on-his-sexuality\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T07:00:59","slug":"finnish-presidential-candidate-surprised-at-renewed-focus-on-his-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/finnish-presidential-candidate-surprised-at-renewed-focus-on-his-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish presidential candidate surprised at renewed focus on his sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125236\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nPekka Haavisto says discussion about his being gay has increased since he made it through to the final round of voting. The Finnish presidential candidate Pekka Haavisto has questioned why his sexuality has come under such strong focus in the final days of campaigning before Sunday\u2019s election as polls narrow with his rival, Alexander Stubb.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old former foreign minister, who if he wins would become Finland\u2019s first Green and first gay president, said he had been surprised by the way his sexuality had become an issue of public interest in the second and final round. International security and defence are a high priority in the Nordic country after it joined Nato last year as it borders Russia. The Finnish president is head of state, commander-in-chief of the army and responsible for foreign policy in cooperation with the government.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, when Haavisto ran for president the first time, voters were keen to discuss his sexual identity with him, but he had not initially found it to be a central topic on the campaign trail this time. However, since coming second out of nine candidates in the first round to make it through to the final round of voting against Stubb, he said that journalists, particularly those from the national broadcaster, Yle, had been \u201ctriggering\u201d discussion around it.<\/p>\n<p>From his home in Helsinki, where he lives with his partner, Antonio Flores, he said: \u201cNot so much in the campaign debates but actually by some journalists in Yle, the national broadcasting company, they have been triggering it in a surprisingly strong way in the second round of the voting. \u201cI think many commentators are also a little bit surprised that I am a third-time presidential candidate, and in the first round it was not a topic, so how come it comes in the second round?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/09\/finnish-presidential-candidate-surprised-at-renewed-focus-on-his-sexuality\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/09\/finnish-presidential-candidate-surprised-at-renewed-focus-on-his-sexuality\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/finnish-presidential-candidate-surprised-at-renewed-focus-on-his-sexuality\/\">Finnish presidential candidate surprised at renewed focus on his sexuality<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[824,13334,13335,13336,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-125236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-finnish","tag-presidential-candidate","tag-sexuality","tag-suprised-focus","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}