Since 2 May, the National Coalition Party, the Finns Party, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats have been negotiating the direction of future Finnish policy.
The past week has been about immigration and climate policy and the talks have been fraught with major contradictions, especially between the center-right Swedish People's Party, the Swedish People's Party, and the nationalist Finns Party.
"What makes it problematic, especially on the issue of immigration, is that one party participating in the government negotiations – the Swedish People's Party – has key issues that in practice are the opposite of our key issues," Riikka Purra, chairman of the Finns Party, told Yle earlier this week.
By late Thursday evening, a consensus had not yet been reached and the Finns Party demanded that the negotiations be suspended if no agreement was reached by 18 p.m. the following day, reports Swedish Yle.
SFP pending
On Friday afternoon, however, it was clear that the negotiations will continue and later in the evening the National Coalition Party's Petteri Orpo announced that there is now "a paper ready on the two subjects".
According to the Swedish People's Party's Anna-Maja Henriksson, they could not directly approve the documentation on immigration, but the party is expected to raise the issue internally on Saturday morning, reports Swedish Yle.
"Tomorrow we will carefully review what is on the table so we know how to proceed," said Anna-Maja Henriksson, leader of the Swedish People's Party.
Henriksson adds that her party is ready to continue negotiations even if the parliamentary group does not approve the documentation on Saturday.
"We are here to bring about a government and we are prepared to continue negotiating," says Anna-Maja Henriksson.
Historically, Finland's government negotiations have taken an average of 1.5 months.