“Turns out this “center-right” party is actually left-wing.”
Can you imagine how much further left the other party is.
How is Finland all that different from the Soviet derived current Russia?
Just to point out the numbers...the urbanization-factor (same as in the US) plays out well. The left/far-left vote is mostly around the Helsinki or other five or six major cities of the country.
Another odd factor in Finn elections is that scandals break out about every 18 months, over things that Americans would rank as one-star. But in the Finn landscape, these get blown way out of proportion. Just having a video clip of the PM holding a cocktail glass...would create a scandal.