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muriel_volestrangler

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Sun Apr-17-11 04:03 PM
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Nationalist True Finns make gains in Finland vote

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Source: BBC

A Finnish nationalist party has taken nearly a fifth of votes in the general election, results suggest.

With almost all votes counted, the True Finns were running just behind the conservative NCP and the Social Democrats on around 19%.

While the Social Democrats have called for changes on EU bail-outs, including the planned Portuguese rescue, True Finns opposes the plans altogether.

A hostile Finnish government could theoretically veto the package.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13107620

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