Yle fact-check: How true are party leader statements on immigration, employment?
Yle continues to check statements made by political leaders as the campaign intensifies for June’s local elections.
Read More →More than 10% of Finland cast early votes in local elections
A polling station in Helsinki has seen up to 500 early voters turn up per day.
Read More →Finland starts casting early votes, sometimes drive-in style
Some voters won’t need to leave their cars to cast their ballots in this year’s local elections.
Read More →THL’s Salminen: “Too much attention” paid to worst-case-scenario infection figures
The Justice Ministry said that the THL prognosis was among the factors in the decision to postpone municipal elections.
Read More →Paper: Municipal elections to be postponed until June
According to newspaper Iltalehti, a new timetable for April’s elections would be announced on Saturday.
Read More →Yle poll: SDP support drops as race at the top intensifies
The Prime Minister’s party is fractionally in front of the Finns Party and NCP ahead of municipal elections next month.
Read More →Thursday’s papers: Vaccine strategies, career change, airport expansion
Papers report that officials who are to work the polls in April’s local elections may move to the front of the queue.
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