Social Democrats stay at top as support for ruling coalition continues dwindling

THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY has held on to the top spot in the latest opinion poll commissioned by YLE.

The Finnish public broadcasting company reported last week that popular support for the opposition party has fallen by 0.3 percentage points to 24.0 per cent since early November. With the National Coalition and Finns Party either treading water or sinking, though, it remains comfortably the most popular political party in Finland.