YLE: As Social Democrats surges, National Coalition loses top spot

THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY has emerged as by far the most popular political party in Finland, according to an opinion poll published on Thursday by YLE.

While support for the opposition party has surged by 2.2 percentage points to 22.8 per cent since early July, the National Coalition and Finns Party have both lost support as they remain mired in racism controversies, the former slipping from 22.1 to 19.8 per cent and the latter from 20.2 to 19.2 per cent.