Croatian Ruling Party Triumphs in Elections, Tough Negotiations Ahead
In a widely expected outcome, Croatia's ruling conservative party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), emerged victorious in the parliamentary elections
Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has admitted defeat in parliamentary elections held in the country on Sunday, with his party coming second.
The opposition Centre Party, led by millionaire former IT businessman Juha Sipil?, has won with 21.2% of the vote, while support for Stubb's National Coalition Party (NCP) was at 18.2%.
According to YLE, Finland's public broadcaster, the conservative NCP has only a narrow lead on the right-wing Finns party, known for its euroscepticism, which has mustered 17.6% of the vote.
Social Democrats are fourth at 16.5%.
Seat allocation according to YLE's website, however, gives Finns the second-largest number of seats in the 200-member Finnish Parliament, with the party projected to have 38 MPs and the NCP set to get 37 despite its result.
Centre will have 49 seats, which is 14 seats more than what it had in the outgoing legislature.
Sipil?, who headed the Centre Party several years ago, will now have various options to form a coalition government.
Two immigrant MPs, Nasima Razmyar (Social Democrats) and Ozan Yanar (Greens), will also join Parliament. Razmyar was born in Afghanistan, while Yanar was raised in the UK and Cyprus after his family left Turkey.
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