Finns vote on Sunday February 11 to elect their president, whose role has increased since joining NATO last year. Some 4.3 million voters must choose between the former conservative Prime Minister, Alexander Stubb, and the former head of diplomacy, Pekka Haavisto.
The Nordic country ended three decades of military non-alignment after the invasion of Ukraine. It became a member of the Atlantic Alliance last year, to the great dismay of Russia, which promised to respond with “countermeasures”