Posted on 01/22/2012 10:02:43 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
The conservative favorite easily won the first round of Finland's presidential election Sunday, setting up a runoff against an environmentalist leader who is the first openly gay candidate to run for head of state in the Nordic country.
Sauli Niinisto, a former finance minister, won 37 percent of the vote, well ahead of the other candidates but short of the majority needed to avoid a second round, official preliminary results showed.
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What do I know about Finland? Well, let’s see ...
Their women are hot.
The stomped the Soviets in the snow, some many decades ago.
There’s a mobile phone company there. What’s their name? Used to know it! With the obnoxious ring tone?
I would imagine that sort of thing is lost on the "environmentalist leader who is the first openly gay candidate to run for head of state in the Nordic country.".
I think it’s great that conservatives are starting to show strength in the Scandanavian countries.
That “conservative” sounds about as conservative as O-Dumbo.
Just a question. I have noticed that conservatives in European countries would be considered extreme left wing here with the exception that they don’t want destructive foreign cultures invading their country. Is this the case here, or are they really conservatives?
What passes for a conservative in Europe is pretty much a socialist to us. I had a lot of fun traveling to Finland for business. Night and day difference between them and the Swedes. Maybe it was Wed. night that was girl’s night out and if you were in a club they would drag you out to dance. Norway was similar. There was one famous place in Helsinki that we used to hit..the Red Room. The first country to have a great cell phone system.
What passes for a conservative in Europe is pretty much a socialist to us. I had a lot of fun traveling to Finland for business. Night and day difference between them and the Swedes. Maybe it was Wed. night that was girl’s night out and if you were in a club they would drag you out to dance. Norway was similar. There was one famous place in Helsinki that we used to hit..the Red Room. The first country to have a great cell phone system.
A trend, Mebbie?
Good news he’s a Finn version of “conservative”, bad news he’s pro-Europhile.
Thank you.
You may have missed this news. Finland has (or rather will have when he is sworn in on March 1) it’s first center-right President in a very long time.
He won a landslide over some homo from the Green party in the runoff last week.
Heh. Interestubg. Sounds like a reverse version of their fellow Scandinavian country, Iceland. The Icelandic people had a conservative government for years until the worldwide financial crisis caused an Obama-style leftist to win and Iceland "making history" with the world's first openly lesbian head of state (puke) in 2009. I dunno if they've since had an Iceland version of the 2010 U.S. midterms. Hope so.
Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir would probably disagree. I'm pretty sure the carpet-muncher counts as "Nordic". AP gets their facts wrong again!
But she's not a head of state, she's a head of government.
On the other hand, you make a good point on the distinction between head of state and head of government. Gotta love the freepers who foam at the mouth at the evils of “democracy” and claim that a “Republic” is based on rule of law and democracy isn't. News to Australia, they have democracy in their country but have yet to successfully pass an initiative to become a Republic. Guess the poor Aussies don't have rule of law. hee hee. ;-)
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