Finland’s probable new conservative prime minister, Petteri Orpo, will this week start exploring coalition options after a narrow election win that shifted the Nordic country’s politics to the right and pushed the party of his predecessor, Sanna Marin, a star of Europe’s left, into third place.
Final results showed Orpo’s National Coalition party (NCP), which campaigned on a platform of reining in public spending, won 48 seats in the 200-seat parliament, with the far-right, anti-immigration Finns party getting 46 and Marin’s Social Democrats (SDP) 43.
