The opposition conservative Kokoomus party, led by Petteri Orpoand the social democrats of the prime minister, Sanna Marinpractically tie, with a minimal advantage of the firstin the elections held this Sunday in Finland.
Conservatives get 20.8% of the votesafter the closure of the polling stations and when 40.1% of the votes have already been counted and they would have an advantage of two seats.
The Social Democrats of the Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, currently the largest political force in the country, obtain for now only one tenth less, 20.7% of the vote, 2.1 points more than the far-right party True Finns.
He center partythe main government partner of the Social Democrats, is in fourth position with 12.3% of the votes, 1.4 points less than in the 2019 elections, which would be the worst result in its history.
Although the last published survey gave the True Finns second place, almost tied with the conservatives, for the moment they are rising less than expected, according to the votes counted, but their support could increase as the count progressesas happened in the past elections.
For their part, The Greens, in which the Foreign Minister, Pekka Haavisto, is a member, lost 4.1 points and obtained 7.3% of the votes, being surpassed by the Left Alliance of the Minister of Education, Li Andersson , which gets 8%.
The last parties that currently get representation in the Eduskunta (Parliament) are the Christian Democrats, with 4.4%, the Swedish People’s Party, with 3.8% and the minority Liike Nyt (Movement Now), with 2%.
These results correspond to early voting, in which more than 1.7 million voters, equivalent to 40.5% of the total censuswent to the polls last week and that have been published after the closure of schools in Finland at 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT).
Given that participation is usually around 70%, early voting on this occasion may account for more than half of the total votes cast.
The electoral authorities calculate that the scrutiny will be finished before local midnight (21:00 GMT).