Largest parties almost level in parliamentary elections

Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland and leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), claps while looking at the results of the election day poll. Sergei Grits/AP

Helsinki–The expected tight race between the largest parties is looming in the parliamentary elections in Finland. Based on the early votes cast on Sunday evening, the conservative National Coalition Party was only 0.1 percentage points ahead of Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats. The right-wing populist party The Finns followed at some distance.