Arctic circle: Nationalists in Finland

Dear Anonymous,

Politics is about power. And at least the ones we elect to our Parliaments, whether it's Seimas or Eduskunta, basically gain the ability to exercise power and authority after the country's vote.
I cannot say exactly which day the political campaign for the election to Eduskunta (Parliament of Finland) started, but at least 3 weeks ago, constellation of brochures, booklets and posters appearead everywhere. City center (indeed), bus stops, on displays and stands, shops, cars, in daily and week newspapers as well as magazines. Two weeks ago, even stickers appeared on the entrance door of the exchange students' dormitory.
Little presents given to you directly by the candidates in the city center of Rovaniemi (in this case, potato chips in a colorful bag, decorated by handsome candidate's head) are legal.
17 of April, Sunday it happened.
Accidentally, on Sunday in order to visit new places of Rovaniemi, we passed a school in which election was in the process. Typical, to choose a well-known public building, located in the convenient place as a polling-station.
As we pad along next three of four hundred meters, suddenly a car stopped on the street corner, a male gets out of the car, opens the back door and leaves a metal, double-sided advertisement of candidate, just on the street corner, in order to influence the ones, who yet do not possess a solid opinion about the candidates on their way to the polling-station.
For the last week, I tried to interview as much of the Fins, that I managed to meet in my life in Finland as possible, about the upcoming elections. Some of them expressed a disappointment about the increasing popularity of the 'True Finns Party', which is non-moderate right party, embracing anti-emigration, Euro-skeptic stance.
And here are the results of the Fins vote:

• National Coalition Party - 44
• Social Democrats - 42
• True Finns - 39
• Centre Party - 35

Currently there are ongoing discussions about the results of the vote, especially about the True Finns winning the 3rd amount of the seats and their probable position concerning Euro-skepticipsm, anti-immigration etc.
As I find elections to be really interesting part of the 'getting in to the power process', I have already been an election observer and the last time, a member of election comitee in Lithuania, this time I definitely tried to get a position of the 'international observer' as well. Unfortunately, I should have done that more than 4 month earlier. Despite this fact, I still had a little possibility to be involved in the elections, by hanging posters.