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Presidential Elections, Round One - Fight!
14 years ago
General
Not the American thing, who cares about that?
No, I'm talking about the Finnish presidential election today! And going onto the second round of voting, two weeks from now, are Sauli Niinistö, the Coalition Party candiate, former Minister of Finance, parliamentarian, lawyer and banker, the forerunner and expected next President; and Pekka Haavisto, the Green Party candidate, parlimentarian, former Minister of Environment, successful diplomat and the first openly gay candidate ever. (Seriously, he's in a registered partnership with an Equadorian hairdresser.)
In Finnish terms, it's mostly a case of Moderate Right against Moderate Liberal Right; in US terms, Niinistö would be a left-leaning Democrat, and Haavisto would be off the charts.
This is going to be interesting!
No, I'm talking about the Finnish presidential election today! And going onto the second round of voting, two weeks from now, are Sauli Niinistö, the Coalition Party candiate, former Minister of Finance, parliamentarian, lawyer and banker, the forerunner and expected next President; and Pekka Haavisto, the Green Party candidate, parlimentarian, former Minister of Environment, successful diplomat and the first openly gay candidate ever. (Seriously, he's in a registered partnership with an Equadorian hairdresser.)
In Finnish terms, it's mostly a case of Moderate Right against Moderate Liberal Right; in US terms, Niinistö would be a left-leaning Democrat, and Haavisto would be off the charts.
This is going to be interesting!
No "family values" crusaders on their third marriage, though, or caught in compromising situations with another man. Our conservatives tend to lack the Republical luridness by virtue of actually being fairly conservative.
Yeah, a lot our conservative politicians should really be called corporatists or straight-up plutocrats, and are all about keeping government out of people's lives except in the cases of sex, religion, privacy, free speech, and cutting taxes for the rich. :P
I don't know anymore; ever since our courts decided that money = free speech, it feels like voting is more like buying a product than promoting political views.