Pre-election Yle poll: NCP first, SDP and Finns Party close behind
Support for at least two government parties, the Centre and the Greens, seems to have slipped since the protracted budget framework dispute.
Image: Ilkka Kemppinen / Yle
The opposition National Coalition Party (NCP) has taken the lead in the latest Yle party support poll. Prime Minister
Sanna Marin s Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the opposition Finns Party garnered almost as much support, though. The Greens suffered the biggest loss in support. Support for another government party, the Centre, fell to 11.7 percent.
The two-point gap between the NCP and the SDP is just outside the 1.9 percentage point margin of error. Meanwhile the SDP and Finns are virtually tied for second place, separated by just one tenth of a percentage point.
Prime Minister
Sanna Marin s Social Democratic Party (SDP) has unveiled its agenda in the run-up to local elections in June.
Among other issues, the party platform emphasises support for those who take care of family members with illnesses or disabilities at home.
In a speech on Sunday, party chair Marin said that criteria for subsidies for home caregivers should be harmonised throughout the country and that sufficient funds must be set aside for family care subsidies.
There are nearly 50,000 caregivers in Finland who have entered into family care contracts, and altogether some 350,000 people who care for relatives on a permanent basis.
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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.
Image: Ilkka Kemppinen / Yle
There is very little distance between Finland’s three largest parties with just six weeks left until the municipal election, according to the results of Yle’s latest monthly political party poll.
Each of the three suffered slight dips in support in the latest measurement, with Prime Minister
Sanna Marin’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) dropping just below 20 percent voter support for the first time since she took over as leader.