Finland to choose between two preisdential candidates with tough stance on Russia
Two candidates from opposing centre-right and green parties go head to head in Sunday's run-off presidential vote, but both share a hard line on Russia.
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00:00 Faced with Russia, security is set to dominate the runoff vote for Finland`s next president
00:08 on Sunday.
00:09 The candidates are former center-right Prime Minister Alexander Stubb and ex-Foreign Minister
00:15 Pekka Havisto of the Greens.
00:17 Both call for Finland, which recently joined NATO, to take a tough stance against Russia.
00:22 Stubb leads the polls, but Havisto is gaining ground.
00:26 Some people will make their minds up on Saturday perhaps, even Sunday, on the election day.
00:30 So they are campaigning very actively to the end, but it`s unlikely that any new openings
00:36 things will be visible in the last few days.
00:40 What makes the situation exciting is that the gap between them has been narrowing.
00:45 The candidates of the far-right Finns party and the liberal center party were eliminated
00:50 in the first round.
00:51 Their voters, up to 20 percent of the electorate, could be crucial in deciding the final outcome.
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