{"id":124959,"date":"2024-01-29T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/centre-right-party-ahead-in-finnish-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:20:32","slug":"centre-right-party-ahead-in-finnish-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/centre-right-party-ahead-in-finnish-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre-right party ahead in Finnish presidential election"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nFinland\u2019s former prime minister Alexander Stubb and the country\u2019s former foreign minister Pekka Haavisto have progressed through to the second round of the presidential elections, knocking out a rightwing populist candidate. With all votes counted, Stubb, of the centre-right National Coalition party, had won 27.2% of votes, while the liberal candidate Haavisto, a member of the Green party who is running as an independent, had secured 25.8%, election officials said. Heading into the vote, experts had thought far-right Finns party candidate Jussi Halla-aho might make it to the second round. In the event, he came third with 19% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The high-stakes election \u2013 the first since Finland joined Nato \u2013 to replace two-term president Sauli Niinist\u00f6 saw a record turnout among advance voters. More than 44.6% of those who were able to vote in advance did so, the equivalent of 1.9 million people. \u201cThis is more than I dared to believe,\u201d Stubb, 55, told YLE. \u201cWe made it to the second round. That is now clear,\u201d Haavisto, 65, told the crowd at his election party in Helsinki on Sunday night. \u201cI am very happy and satisfied. We have worked hard for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A runoff between the two top candidates will be held in two weeks\u2019 time, on 11 February. To be declared president, the winning candidate must receive more than 50% of votes. After a last-minute surge by Halla-aho, liberals had feared there could be two rightwing candidates in the second round. But early results suggested that was unlikely. \u201cI am concerned, but now we have to follow the will of the voters,\u201d Haavisto, who would be Finland\u2019s first out gay and Green president, told the Observer on Friday at a campaign event.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical drama on the border with Russia, Finland\u2019s first election since joining Nato is seen as the most high-stakes in living memory. The president \u2013 who is head of state and commander-in-chief of the army and is responsible for foreign policy, in cooperation with the government \u2013 represents Finland at Nato summits and in meetings with international leaders, so is seen as crucial to the country\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>Stubb, who was prime minister from 2014 to 2015 and has spent eight years in government, told the Guardian on Friday that he came out of political retirement because of Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. He said: \u201cHaving been in government for eight consecutive years and having held all the key portfolios, I felt in 2016 that I had very much done it for God and country, as they say. My plan was not to return to politics, or certainly not to national politics \u2026 but Putin\u2019s attack on Ukraine changed it.\u201d In the current climate, he said, foreign and security policy was \u201cexistential\u201d for Finland, which has closed its entire land border with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>After Finland joined Nato in record speed last April, he said the country was entering \u201ca new age in Finnish foreign policy\u201d. He said: \u201cWhen it became evident, right at the beginning of the war, that our path towards the alliance would begin, I felt strongly that this was a new age in Finnish foreign policy and perhaps I could throw my hat into the ring once again.\u201d The election so far has centred largely on international and security issues, including Russia, Ukraine, Gaza, the US elections and Nato membership. But in the past few weeks, debates between the nine candidates had focused more on domestic issues, benefiting the Finns party candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/28\/centre-right-party-ahead-in-the-finnish-presidential-election-polls\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/centre-right-party-ahead-in-finnish-presidential-election\/\">Centre-right party ahead in Finnish presidential election<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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":[1641,586,12997,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-124959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-election","tag-finland","tag-presidential","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}