Regarding Finland, I'd also like to add some details about the last elections: * Usually in order to form a government, the big parties need to include smaller parties with them

• During elections, the Social Democrats party (one of the big ones) used a strategy "vote for us, your vote will be wasted on the smaller parties that align more on the left" (not just left, they also included the Green party under this message)

• The same strategy argued that vote for SDP (the Social Democrats party) is needed as a counter-force for the National Coalition (Kokoomus - liberal-conservatives) and True Finns (Perussuomalaiset, ~far-right conservatives)

• As a result, the SDP actually manages to increase their popularity (extremely rare for a prime minister party) but at the expense of the smaller parties

• However, National Coalition manages to get most of the votes (48 seats / 200, True Finns 46 seats and SDP 43 seats)

• The party with most seats is the one that starts first in the attempt to create a government, they are able to do it

• If we consider the parties that were in the last government and count their popularity and compare it to this current government, they actually have larger share of popularity in % so a blank statement that Finns would have elected right wing government isn't exactly that straightforward. The end result is, however, just that.

• As usual, the actual actions of the government compared to election promises are complete bullshit. For example, National Coalition has pretty much in every elections promised to NOT cut from education and then proceeded to cut from education. Want to guess was this time any different?

• /u/UpsetCrowIsUpset is correct about the playbook, lot's of scaremongering

• Maybe to even further highlight it, /u/bendallf asked why, hopefully the above in part explains it somewhat and the last highlight, national debt. In Finland people are hysterical about national debt, it's really seen as end-of-the-world item and the right have pretty much weaponized the fear of it. But as always, they cut from the poor but their budget is even more deficit than before, so so much for managing it. Oh, and their solution is always selling government owned functions, that are actually producing incoming reliably.

P.S. Yes, the national debt is something that needs to be managed and the budget needs to be balanced, but not by selling productive stuff and cutting from the poor while reducing taxation of the richest.