Social Democrats hold over five-point lead in latest YLE poll

THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY has solidified its status as the most popular political party in Finland.

YLE on Thursday revealed that its latest poll shows support for the opposition party surging by 1.7 percentage points over the past month, to 24.3 per cent. With the National Coalition seeing its popularity fall by 1.2 points to 18.8 per cent, the gap between the two parties has widened to 5.5 points.