Finland PM Sanna Marin's centre left defeated by conservatives in tight race
Sanna Marin was pleased with her party's performance but it was Petteri Orpo's nightFinnish conservative leader Petteri Orpo has won a nail-biting three-way election race, defeating Prime Minister Sanna Marin's centre left.
For weeks the three parties had been almost level in the polls, and as the results came in it became too close to call. Then a projection from public broadcaster YLE gave Petteri Orpo's National Coalition victory with the biggest number of seats in parliament.Watch: Petteri Orpo, who must now form a majority coalition, speaks after election win
Finns Party leader Riikka Purra congratulated her centre-right rival and was herself delighted with the best result in her party's history.Image source,Meanwhile, three of the other parties in the outgoing coalition - the Centre Party, Left Alliance and Greens - all rang up big losses. The conservatives will have the first opportunity in forming a government, and if they succeed, Mr Orpo, 53, will become the next prime minister.
Under Finland's system of proportional representation he will have to muster more than 100 seats in the 200-seat parliament to run the country, and that will not be straightforward. "The most natural thing would be to co-operate with the Social Democrats. But [Sanna Marin] used to belong to her party's left wing and it's obvious she doesn't like the conservatives."
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