Petteri Orpo, the winner of the Finnish election, is a fiscal conservative, who has promised to cut unemployment benefits and other welfare programs. He also ran on the pledge to reduce the public debt, allow tax cuts and boost economic growth.
While liberal-conservative National Coalition Party, having edged out his competitors in a tight run, pledged openness for negotiations with all parties, runner-ups nationalist Finns Party emerge as the most likely candidate for forming a ruling...
"This was a great victory," said the 53-year-old head of the conservative National Coalition Party to his supporters. "On the basis of this election result... we will start negotiating a government in Finland."
