What the defeat of Sanna Marin means for • Table.Briefings

The shift to the right in Europe continues. After Italy and Sweden, which have already been governed by conservative, populist and nationalist parties since last year, Finland also moved a bit to the right in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. This also has consequences at the EU level.

In Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Finland, the Social Democrats of Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who have been in power until now, did make gains – they gained 2.2 percentage points to 19.9 percent. However, they still fell to third place behind the conservative National Rally Party of former Finance Minister Petteri Orpo (20.8 percent) and the right-wing populist party The Finns (20.1 percent).

What the defeat of Sanna Marin means for Europe

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