Finnish Election 2011

biko

Huge gains for a nationalist euroskeptic party in Finland's general election are challenging Europe's plans to rescue debt-ridden economies.
The pro-EU conservative National Coalition Party was the winner in Sunday's vote but the coalition it previously belonged to no longer has a parliamentary majority. The party will now begin negotiations on the formation of a new government with the euroskeptic True Finns, expected to be a long and difficult discussion.

The conservatives won 44 seats in the 200-member Parliament — two more than the Social Democrats. The True Finns soared from six to 39 seats.
Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi's Center Party fell from the top spot to 35 seats and said it would go into the opposition.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42633842/ns/world_news-europe/

wonton

Maybe this is an opinion for the politics forum but I always thought it was interesting how finland seem to have went the opposite way to all other highstandard of living countried in europe and adopted and strict immigration policy.

and now with the results of this it seems it will get even stricter or at least no will not get as loose as some other countries.

crazy to think its neighbour sweden, has pretty much the most multicultural city in europe malmo.

whiteonion

The Finns are rational people, they have seen the failures of multiculturalism and decided not to go down that route.