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Yle party poll. Municipal elections. Elections in kindergarten. Photojournalism award. Weather.

There’s a lot of news about the elections today. Regional and municipal elections will be held in Finland on Sunday.

Yle election poll

In the Yle poll, the SDP is now the most popular party, but the National Coalition Party is right behind. In the municipal elections, the difference between the parties is only 0.1 percentage points.

Next in the poll are the Center Party and the Finns Party.

In the regional elections, the National Coalition Party is 0.3 percentage points behind the SDP.

The Center Party is third, and the Finns Party falls behind the Left Alliance and the Greens.

The municipal elections are on Sunday

Why are municipal elections held in Finland?

In elections, you exercise power by voting.

The municipal council is elected in municipal elections.

The council leads the municipality and decides how the municipality spends tax money.

You can follow the municipality’s decisions and where the municipality spends money.

Are you happy living in your own municipality?

Many foreigners who have lived in Finland for a long enough time are also allowed to vote in municipal and regional elections.

Only municipal elections are held in Helsinki.

Elections in kindergarten

Then about voting in a kindergarten in Helsinki.

In the Maunula election, children voted on their favorite book. At the same time, they want to teach children the basics of democracy.

Lenni Laaksontammi already knows what kind of elections are held in Finland.

- Municipal elections, parliamentary elections, presidential elections.

Niklas Sottinen thinks other votes are needed in kindergartens

- That I could only eat fish.

Photography Award

More about the photos.

Yle photographer Silja Viitala will receive this year’s Patricia Seppälä Foundation Photojournalist Award.

Viitala has particularly photographed politics.

The reasons for the award state that Viitala’s photographs have situational awareness, warmth and humor.

- Then when you see that picture on a media page, it can stop you. It can tell you something about the situation that words could never tell.

Weather

Finally, the weather forecast.

It will snow in the southern and central parts of the country tomorrow night.

Tomorrow afternoon, it will snow again in the east. The sun will shine on the west coast and in Lapland.

It is freezing almost all over the country.