Finnish parliamentary elections

[Zoupa]

1,5,6 are in my "would" category. Voted Sanna of course.

[The Minsky Moment]

I appreciate that #3 is trying to be even handed, but he can't seem to stop himself from tilting to the right.

[viper37]

Sana Marin.
For a center left politician, she is grounded, she appreciates real music, she has taken a real leadership position in the Ukraine War and is not taking Russia lightly hiding behind "peace".  Finland is in a solid position now having joined NATO.

If all center left politicians were like her, I might be leftist too.

[Admiral Yi]

Normally I would cast a joke vote for Smashing Pumpkins or Penn and Teller but the incumbent is too strong.

[Solmyr]

Languish clearly supports the current government.

[mongers]

Languish clearly supports the current government.

It maybe also that some of can't get to the bottom of the long list of enormous photos, so choose one of the early options.

[The Larch]

Languish clearly supports the current government.

It maybe also that some of can't get to the bottom of the long list of enormous photos, so choose one of the early options.

Or we just fancy Mrs. Marin. 

[Legbiter]

Today is election day. Will be interesting.

[Solmyr]

Votes are being tallied now (I was working in an election committee all day). Firm results probably late today or early tomorrow. Anyway, here are the people I included in this poll:

1. Sanna Marin, Social Democrats (center-left, current PM)
2. Riikka Purra, The Finns (far right/nationalist)
3. Petteri Orpo, National Coalition(center-right with both conservatives and liberals)
4. Annika Saarikko, Center Party
5. Li Andersson, Left Alliance (mainstream leftist party)
6. Maria Ohisalo, Green Party (liberal, somewhat left-leaning but with some right-leaning members)
7. Anna-Maja Henriksson, Swedish People's Party (these days fairly liberal)
8. Sari Essayah, Christian Democrats (super conservatives)
9. Harry "Hjallis" Harkimo, Movement Now (liberal center-right, tiny party centered around its leader)
10. Lassi Kivinen, Liberal Party (market liberals)
11. Pekka Mustonen, Pirate Party (nerds - as I mentioned he and the previous guy would fit well on Languish )
12. Tuukka Kuru, Blue-Blacks (fascists, one of the newest registered parties - they are racists and open about it)
13. Ano Turtiainen, Power Belongs to the People (crazy Putin fanboys, anti-NATO/antivaxxers/conspiracy theorists)

Right now it looks like the National Coalition is the biggest, followed by The Finns and then the Social Democrats. All three got more places at the expense of the smaller parties: Center Party, Greens and the Left Alliance are losing a bunch of places.

Projected new government is either "blue-red" (National Coalition, Social Democrats, Greens, Swedes) or dank conservative (National Coalition, The Finns, Christian Democrats).

[Josquius]

Very surprised weird beard guy is the liberal.

[Admiral Yi]

Why do y'all need eight liberal parties?

[Solmyr]

Why do y'all need eight liberal parties?

We are very liberal like that.

[Sheilbh]

Very surprised weird beard guy is the liberal.

Don't know. Not a million miles away from my mental image of "actually I'm a classical liberal" guys online   

[Legbiter]

Don't know. Not a million miles away from my mental image of "actually I'm a classical liberal" guys online   

Redditor...

[Iormlund]

So #3 rapped his way to victory. Will miss Mrs. Marin.