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Can Finland’s New Center-Left Government Keep the Far Right at Bay?

Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne speaks to journalists prior to an EU summit, Brussels, Belgium, June 20, 2019 (Photo by Jakub Dospiva for CTK via AP Images).
Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne speaks to journalists prior to an EU summit, Brussels, Belgium, June 20, 2019 (Photo by Jakub Dospiva for CTK via AP Images).
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A new five-party coalition government was formally appointed in Finland earlier this month, led by Prime Minister Antti Rinne. Rinne’s Social Democratic Party narrowly won legislative elections in mid-April with only 17.7 percent of the vote, leading it to partner with four smaller parties to form a left-leaning majority coalition in the Parliament. But the far-right populist Finns Party placed a close second in the elections with 17.5 percent, and it has emerged as the most popular party in Finland in recent public opinion polls. In an email interview with WPR, Teivo Teivainen, a professor of world politics at the […]

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