Radio | Clear news | Sunday 19 November 2023
SDP presidential candidate. The events of the eastern border. Men’s Day. Weather.
SDP presidential candidate
Jutta Urpilainen is running as the SDP party’s presidential candidate. He told about it at the SDP meeting in Tampere.
Urpilainen also talked about things that are important to him when he is a presidential candidate.
Urpilainen said that in Finland all people must be taken care of. No one can be left behind.
He also said that politicians should defend workers and not just companies.
Urpilainen is an EU commissioner. His decision to become SDP’s presidential candidate has been awaited for a long time.
The presidential race has been going on for many months. Other important candidates have long since signed up.
Currently, the most popular presidential candidates are Pekka Haavisto and Alexander Stubb.
The presidential election is in January.
Eastern border events
The Vartius border station on Finland’s eastern border was closed on Sunday. The border station was closed for a short time.
The Finns closed the border post because the Russian authorities brought more asylum seekers to the border. When the asylum seekers were at the border, they could no longer return to Russia.
There were not very many asylum seekers.
Finland has closed four border crossings in the east. The reason is that the Russians have directed more and more asylum seekers to Finland.
Officials say Russia wants to provoke and cause disorder.
Men’s Day
Sunday was men’s day. The purpose of the day is to emphasize the health, equality and good deeds of men and boys in the family and society.
Statistics show that a 30-year-old Finnish man weighs 87 kilograms on average. He is 177 centimeters tall.
43 percent of adult Finnish men are married.
The most common first name for men is Juha.
In school, Finnish boys read worse than girls. 20 percent of boys have poor reading skills.
Weather
It will snow on Monday.
The temperature is between 0 and -10 degrees. In Lapland, the temperature is between -15 and -30 degrees.
