Stubb won 27.1 per cent of votes, while the former foreign minister Haavisto secured 25.8 per cent, with more than 99 percent of votes counted, said election officials.
Ex-Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) on Thursday asked to be relieved of her duties in order to take up the role of strategic advisor at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a London-based political consultancy.
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