The Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin has promised a Finnish message about NATO within a few weeks, before an important party meeting with the Social Democrats in Finland.
- Everyone is now waiting with excitement for the Social Democrats' message, says Liselott Lindström.
The bourgeois parties are in favor, and the True Finns now support solidarity.
The Center Party says that they are on the train if the government is.
More than half of Finland's members of parliament now support NATO membership.
The forms for preparing an application are also beginning to become clear.
Finland has set up a committee in which all party chairmen sit and discuss the issue.
The point of this is to facilitate the discussions once the government has made its decision and the Riksdag is to vote on the issue.
"Starts the process"
Wednesday's debate in the Finnish Parliament can be seen as a starting point for the final leg of the Finnish NATO discussion.
Then the question goes on to the committees, the foreign policy committee must submit a report to the government.
- This is a historic debate that sets in motion the process.
Following the Foreign Affairs Committee's report, the government can make a change in the security policy doctrine.
There is much to suggest that this will happen within a few weeks, says Lindström.
The debate in the Riksdag in Finland begins at 13.15 Swedish time.