Finland’s social democrats, SDP, has declared victory in Sunday’s elections to the reichstag.
– For the first time since 1999 we are the largest party in Finland. SDP is statsministerpartiet, says party leader Antti Rinne on Sunday at 22.30-time Danish time.
But only about 5100 votes stand the social democrats and The True Finns.
98 percent of the votes are counted. The SPD retains a narrow lead by 17.7 percent of the vote, compared with 17.6 percent for The True Finns who become Finland’s second largest party after the election, shows the count on the ministry’s website.
Prime minister Juha Sipilä had earlier in the evening recognize that his centre party is the election loser.
the centre party look, according to preliminary results out to be fjerdestørst with 13.9 percent. The party seems to lose 18 seats and will have to make do with 31 seats in the Finnish parliament.
– This is a big disappointment for us. I would like to congratulate the winners, said Sipilä, according to the German news agency dpa.
the Train is preliminary Samlingspartiet with 16.9 percent.
None of the parties are up over 20 percent in the preliminary count.
a Little over a third of the Finnish voters have voted in advance, and the results from this were published early in the evening. Already here there was a clue about an election victory for the socialists.
the Polling stations closed at 19 Danish time.
A good choice for The True Finns may make it difficult to form a government. Most of the other parties have ruled out a cooperation with the indvandringskritiske party.
– the Question is whether Samlingspartiet will consider to govern with them, says political observer Göran Djupsund to the Swedish tv station SVT.
voter Turnout appears to be 72 percent, according to figures from the ministry of justice.
