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Finnish centre-right leader Orpo ousts Marin in election victory

by Elias HUUHTANEN Finland’s centre-right leader claimed victory in Sunday’s tight general election that saw the far-right post a record score to come in second, as Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats finished third. “This was a great victory,” the 53-year-old head of the conservative National Coalition Party, Petteri Orpo, told his cheering supporters. “On the basis of this election result … we will start negotiating a government in Finland,” he said. Orpo could choose […]