Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin concedes election

Reuters ^ | Sun April 2, 2023

[MinorityRepublican]

Finland’s left-wing Prime Minister Sanna Marin conceded defeat on Sunday in the Nordic country’s parliamentary election as the opposition right-wing National Coalition Party (NCP) claimed victory in a tightly fought contest.

The pro-business NCP was expected to win 48 of the 200 seats in parliament, narrowly ahead of the nationalist Finns Party with 46 seats and Marin’s Social Democrats on 43 seats, justice ministry election data showed with all ballots counted.

“We got the biggest mandate,” NCP leader Petteri Orpo said in a speech to followers, vowing to “fix Finland” and its economy.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Can’t peddle her looks. That’s now a dangerous part of the world. No room for millennials.

[MinorityRepublican]

Petteri Orpo

[MinorityRepublican]

Petteri Orpo

[Paladin2]

She still looks good and is photogenic though.

[kiryandil]

"Regime change"

The zElenskyy Curse strikes again.

[chajin]

Marin is finnished.

[marktwain]

Now see Finland aggressively integrate into NATO.

[Alberta's Child]

I couldn’t imagine working at a McDonald’s that is run by a 30-something year old dingbat … let along live in a country run by one.

[MinorityRepublican]

The whole world saw the videos. Now her image is ruined. Therefore, she lost the election. She's a moron.

[BobL]

“The pro-business NCP was expected to win 48 of the 200...with all ballots counted.”

Sure doesn’t take long for OTHER COUNTRIES to count ballots.

Anyway, great to see her gone, and maybe, just maybe, this NCP guy will put Finland First, and tell the Neocons where to put their Ukraine obsession.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

“Finland’s left-wing Prime Minister Sanna Marin conceded defeat...”

Always appreciate good news. Thanks for posting.

[canuck_conservative]

"maybe this NCP guy will put Finland First, and tell the Neocons Russia where to put their Ukraine obsession"

fixed it for ya, Bob

[nwrep]

Not sure. Only fans awaits.

[mac_truck]

[Paladin2]

Being native born, she was always finnished.

[x]

More time to party with the girls.

Bojo's also got a lot of time on his hands now.

[ansel12]

This is on the National Coalition Party (NCP) party page.

“Petteri Orpo: Finland and NATO – time for the next step”
On Febru­ary 24th Europe woke up to a gloomy morn­ing. The brutal war on Ukraine launched by Russia shocked the whole world. At that same moment the Euro­pean secu­rity changed. Pres­i­dent Putin’s war is a ruth­less breach of inter­na­tional agree­ments and Ukraine’s sover­eignty.

Russia and Putin should have no illu­sions of their mistake. Ukraini­ans did not surren­der and have shown heroic deter­mi­na­tion to defend their coun­try. Attempts to install a pro-Russ­ian puppet govern­ment in Ukraine in a matter of days have failed. In fact, the conse­quences of the war for Russia have been cata­strophic. Europe and West and more united than ever and Russia is lone­lier than ever. The EU found itself united on hard sanc­tions and is now seek­ing to cut its energy depen­dence from Russia.

Now Russia must bear the conse­quences. Russia has become isolated from the inter­na­tional commu­nity, and its econ­omy and entire finan­cial system are in near­ing a total collapse. Demon­stra­tions in Russia are on the rise. Return­ing to dialogue requires Russia to refrain from mili­tary actions and complete with­drawal from Ukraine.

Here in the North too, the devel­op­ment is moving in a direc­tion that Putin’s Russia certainly did not expect. Finland is inten­si­fy­ing its defence coop­er­a­tion with the United States, Sweden and our other Nordic part­ners. The public opin­ion in both Finland and Sweden has histor­i­cally shifted as the major­ity support NATO’s member­ship for the first time.

Now is the time for seri­ous consid­er­a­tion of what this change in the secu­rity envi­ron­ment means for us.

For Finland Russia’s prox­im­ity is a key geostrate­gic fact, and the war in Ukraine indi­cates how the prob­lems asso­ci­ated with Russia’s aggres­sive behav­iour have mate­ri­al­ized. Russia is defin­ing its inter­ests in a way that threat­ens peace in Europe and creates inse­cu­rity in others. During the past decade, there have been upris­ings in several of Russia’s neigh­bors, which the Krem­lin has sought to violently suppress. Russia seeks a new sphere of influ­ence and wants to halt the demo­c­ra­tic devel­op­ment of other coun­tries. Not NATO, but the people’s will to decide for them­selves seems to be a threat to Putin’s regime.

There is more here. https://www.kokoomus.fi/petteri-orpo-finland-and-nato-time-for-the-next-step/?lang=en

[Getready]

For the bazillionth time....beauty is only skin deep....she has proven that old aphorism big time....

[ansel12]

They do put Finland first.

The National Coalition Party’s group speech in Parliament of Finland
“Today, the Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs considers it a fact that no union Between states, which do not belong to NATO, is sufficiently strong.”

Honorable speaker,

In February, Russia set out on an unfathomable, horrendous and uncontrollable path. Russia’s choices and next moves have been impossible to understand and control based on the logic that we have aimed to predict them with.

We lost faith in being able to control our Russia-related risk solely by diplomacy and national defence. We must maximise the military threshold to minimise the threat of an unpredictable reaction. Therefore, most Finns set out to support joining NATO immediately after Russia attacked Ukraine.