Boreal Expat

Yesterday, I voted in the Finnish presidential election for the first time. But it’s not the first time I’ve voted here. (Non-citizen perma...

I didn’t manage to cover, as I originally planned to do, all the parties involved in the Helsinki city council election, at least not befor...

There are four parties in the Helsinki city council race that can be described as “leftist”. The two that I’ve talked about already I called...

Not surprisingly for a European country, and you might say especially for one that was on the fringes of the Russian Revolution, leftist po...

Unlike the United States, Finland has quite a few political parties to choose from, including some fairly small ones. Many of the small fr...

In the Helsinki City Council election this Sunday , one of the mainstream parties vying for my vote is the Christian Democrats ( Kristilli...

A week from today, Finland will hold elections for kunnat (basically county-level municipalities). These are held across the nation every f...

It’s been 19 days since the Finnish parliamentary election, and there is still no government in place. At least, not quite. This isn’t unus...

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m preparing to vote in Finland’s parliamentary election for the first time. In the past, I haven’t hon...

On Sunday , Finns go to the polls to elect a new parliament. And so will I. I have voted here several times. As an ulkomaalainen (for...