National Coalition Party candidate Alexander Stubb is set to become Finland's next president on 1 March, beating independent candidate Pekka Haavisto, backed by a voters' association and the Green party.

National Coalition Party candidate Alexander Stubb is set to become Finland’s next president on 1 March, beating independent (but supported by the Greens) candidate Pekka Haavisto.

I voted for Haavisto but think that Stubb will be a excellent president too. They both are very experienced in foreign policy, pro-EU and very strong supporters of Ukraine. In fact, the press had to dig real hard to find any differences between them, the most major one being their stance on how Finland should respond (to very theoretical situation) if NATO wanted to store nuclear weapons in Finland or transport them via our territory.

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    5 months ago

    I’d be abjectly shocked if NATO ever decided to host or transport Nukes via Finland, it’d be a blindingly stupid escelation for seemingly no good reason.

    • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Yes, very much this. I find it kinda funny that once the press discovered this huge disagreement (not really) between them it was talked about in every singe debate even though absolutely nobody is wanting to give us nukes

  • lulztard@feddit.deEnglish
    410·
    5 months ago

    I miss having good politicians. All we got in Germany are neo-liberal corrupt demagoges that ruin the social cohesion in favour of their industry masters.

    • hannes3120@feddit.deEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      Habeck is quite good but sadly under constant attack by all of Springer-Media and Focus so the public opinion is sadly skewed just because of that…

      • lulztard@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Fair enough, there are a couple of decent ones buried beneath piles of rubbish.

    • thechadwick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      5 months ago

      Trade you for an 80 years gaff machine or an almost 80 year old criminal game show host wannabe Hitler? Two for any one of your neo-liberals, but you have to take both…

      *Edit: (existential sigh of constant anxiety)

      • lulztard@feddit.deEnglish
        31·
        5 months ago

        That’s not fair, that’s like exchanging actual AIDS for cholera. How am I supposed to decide if I want to shit myself to death or die slowly to a corrupted immune system. Eh, now that I read it out aloud in my head, I think I’ll stick with actual AIDS, probably.