Fiscally conservative sorts, Finns worry about government debt. Petteri Orpo, who narrowly won the election, promised to bring the deficit down by cutting social spending; Sanna Marin had promised to raise it
, the Social Democratic prime minister, and Riikka Purra, leader of the hard-right Finns Party, wagging their fingers furiously at each other during a televised debate. Yet in the end the winner was neither Ms Marin nor Ms Purra but the third candidate in the debate. Petteri Orpo’s centre-right National Coalition party narrowly won Finland’s general election on April 2nd, taking 20.8% of the vote to the Finns’ 20.1% and the Social Democrats’ 19.9%.
The campaign was mostly fought on other grounds. Fiscally conservative sorts, Finns worry about government debt, which rose to 75% ofduring the pandemic. Rising defence spending will exacerbate that problem. Mr Orpo promised to bring the deficit down by cutting social spending; Ms Marin had promised to raise it.
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