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Marin says ‘democracy is always a wonderful thing’ as her Social Democrats come third behind rightwing NCP and nationalist Finns parties

Three parties are in a neck-and-neck race to win a majority of Finland’s 200-seat parliament and form a new government.

Helsinki (AFP) - Finns voted on Sunday in legislative elections that could see the country take a dramatic turn to the right, as centre-right and anti-immigration parties vie to unseat Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin.

Is Sanna Marin still popular and do most Finns support NATO? Here are five key things to know.

Keir Starmer has blocked Jeremy Corbyn from running to be a Labour MP at next election

Mr Corbyn share of the voted peaked at 73% at the 2017 general election.

Finland's right-wing opposition National Coalition Party held a narrow lead among voters ahead of an election for parliament on April 2, an opinion poll published by daily Helsingin Sanomat showed on Tuesday.

Parallels are being drawn between the 2023 poll and the annulled 1993 vote, seen as the country’s ‘freest and fairest’.

A day after France announced it was sending Western armoured vehicles to Ukraine, Germany said it would do the same. But Germany, the world’s fourth-largest arms supplier, seemed to be playing catch-up in announcing the move on Thursday, after months of dragging its feet on dispatching its stockpile of tanks…

European lawmakers across the continent have started to sponsor Iranian detainees, hoping to shed light on their injustice and force authorities to back down from handing down lengthy jail sentences or carrying out executions. Sponsoring MPs take responsibility for lobbying for the safety of individual prisoners, demanding information on their…

Politicians particularly in Germany taking responsibility for lobbying for the safety of individual prisoners