Country choosing between former PM Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka Haavisto
Finland headed back to the polls on Sunday for a runoff vote in the country’s most high-stakes presidential election in a generation.
The former prime minister Alexander Stubb, of the centre-right National Coalition party, led in the polls but his rival Pekka Haavisto, a former foreign minister and a member of the Green party who is running as an independent, had narrowed the gap in the last few days of campaigning.
Continue reading…Country choosing between former PM Alexander Stubb and ex-foreign minister Pekka HaavistoFinland headed back to the polls on Sunday for a runoff vote in the country’s most high-stakes presidential election in a generation.The former prime minister Alexander Stubb, of the centre-right National Coalition party, led in the polls but his rival Pekka Haavisto, a former foreign minister and a member of the Green party who is running as an independent, had narrowed the gap in the last few days of campaigning. Continue reading…