It was on Monday that one of the five government parties, the Center Party, announced that they no longer have confidence in Social Democratic Prime Minister Antti Rinne.
On Tuesday morning, the SDP and Center's parliamentary groups met and at 12.30 am local time, the President's Office announced that the Prime Minister had submitted his resignation request.
The political crisis in Finland stems from a labor dispute at the Finnish post office Posti. 700 package sorters were transferred to a subsidiary with another collective agreement where some of them received lower salaries. The postal strike came to an end on Wednesday last week when the union union PAU and employer Palta finally agreed after two weeks.
Responsible Minister Sirpa Paatero (SDP) resigned last week. She had defended the mail handling of the package sorters. Rinne, on the other hand, has been accused of lying about the issue in Parliament, among other things.