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  • The GREAT Election thread 2007

    So today we will know in Finland .. the votes will be in at 20.00, and after that the counting will begin and should be done before the midnight.

    I won't give you an introduction of the parties, because it will be biased, so I figure I'll do you a favour and respect our posters by holding back my own propaganda. The stakes aren't high. The cohesion of our parties, including major parties is boring and personally I feel it is disgusting. They're the same party, all of them.

    So these are parliamentary elections .. "According to the Finnish Constitution sovereign power in Finland belongs to the people, represented by Parliament convened in session. The Finnish Parliament is unicameral and comprises 200 representatives."

    The first parliamentary elections in Finland were held on 15 and 16 March 1907... so this is almost a celebratory thing. These elections are held once every for years.

    OK, the parties are:

    Centre Party (Major one)
    SDP (Major one)
    National Coalition (conservative, major one)

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    Ok these three will be battling for the victory today. Two of these will form the new government, so the two who gets most votes will most likely form the new government (well the winning party will take the second major party in, almost customary).. and then few little parties will also be in it, but they don't matter.

    Then the little parties are as follows:

    Christian Democrats
    Greens
    Leftist Alliance (Translation?)
    Swedish people's party
    True Finns

    I don't care who wins really, changes nothing, but I'd like to see SDP out of the government. I really just don't like that party and especially I have deep hatred for their leader, so I'd like to see them getting the boot. But it's unlikely, but we'll see.

    I'd like to see government: Centre Party, National Coalition, Greens. I don't mind Greens. I think they're OK party. If I REALLY had my way, the government might be something like Liberals, Greens and maybe National Coalition (we always need one major party, and SDP is out so, coin toss). That would be ideal for me, from the list of crap parties, this would suck the least personally.

    I also just came back from voting ... it's kind of funny, you really feel like it doesn't matter, yeah, changes nothing, but then you kind of go and you feel good about it afterwards... you feel good that you voted.
    In da butt.
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    It's not very great

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    • #3
      I guess that at least Coalition and Greens are going to gain some seats. SDP and Centre have to do some serious image management work if they want to keep their position in the long run. True Finns are very popular among the young and might be able to keep their seat in Helsinki with Jussi Halla-aho.

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      • #4
        Right... Don't know about True Finns though.. Halla-aho has been getting some momentum on the internet, but I don't think it will translate into real votes that Halme got. But we'll see.

        I think the biggest gainers will be Coalition and definitely the Greens. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, in my opinion. But I would like to see some of them Liberals up for a real run as well ... but omg do they suck at campagns, they're in the same level of the joke parties.
        In da butt.
        "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
        THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
        "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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        • #5
          I'm prepared for a Left Wing triumph
          Que l’Univers n’est qu’un défaut dans la pureté de Non-être.

          - Paul Valery

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          • #6
            Well according to Yle's prognosis it seems that the Right is winning big. We might get a bourgeois government.

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            • #7
              True Finns
              That name makes me think of short-haired beer-belching guys who don't like brown people
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              • #8
                National Coalition HOLY CRAP
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                • #9
                  No offense, but I really had a good ROFL when I heard the name of Matthi Vanhanen in the radio - vandhane is danish for water tap
                  With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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                  • #10
                    Lefties lost, especially SDP. SDP lost big, National Coalition took a decisive victory. So it'll be Centre Party + National Coalition.. to be truthful, nothing will change, they all agree in the big things pretty much. But oh well, a little change. For me, the most important thing was that SDP got its ass handed to them. Yaay.

                    Also, first immigrant rep now becomes a fact. That's pretty nice, I think it's only good immigrants also have a person who got through and can have a voice.
                    In da butt.
                    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                    THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                    "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                    • #11
                      Didn't you just have an election?
                      Speaking of Erith:

                      "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                      • #12
                        presidential, yeah.

                        The candidate that lost in the last round broke the record today with ~60k votes in his area. The second most popular got like ~20k in the whole country, so you know that's pretty big. He is pretty popular, and undoubtelty his presidential run carried all the way here.

                        Also it's worth noting, that the winning party (centre party) got ~57k votes in that region, so he took more votes with him than the biggest party altogether. So, pretty succesful run for him today.
                        In da butt.
                        "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                        THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                        "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                        • #13
                          I am sure those numbers add up to more than the entire population of Finland
                          Speaking of Erith:

                          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                          • #14
                            Now the only thing we need is that our president steps down from the duty and Tommy Tabermann takes up the task as the follower. That would be great. He is a poet and the messenger of love .. but not like a joke, he is respected poet and a very nice man. I'd like to see how he would be recieved as a president
                            In da butt.
                            "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                            THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                            "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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                            • #15


                              He should be the face of our country with his love poems. His solutions to world problems would be like 'kiss. kiss each other, spread the love'.. but in a funny kind of way
                              In da butt.
                              "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
                              THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
                              "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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