Finland’s results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party.
Leftist leader Li Andersson received more votes than any other candidate has ever received in a European election.
What I hear is that some European countries are leaning right on over-immigration and are voting on the basis of that issue.
Countries that aren’t going through that, aren’t voting right.
France and Germany were, so they went right. Portugal and Finland weren’t, so they went left.
In Finland that trick has gone already. Right wing ran immigration support to the ground so far right got votes with their campaign of “cars are burning and hand grenades are flying” (they’re not).
So hopefully this election is a first in the counter wave to that.