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Centre-right party ahead in Finnish presidential election

Liberal Green party is a close second and goes through to second round, while far-right Finns have been knocked out

Finland’s former prime minister Alexander Stubb and the country’s former foreign minister Pekka Haavisto appear to be on course to go through to the second round of the presidential elections.

As polls closed at 8pm local time and election day vote counting got under way, figures published by Finland’s justice department showed that among advance voters, Stubb, of the centre-right National Coalition party, was in the lead with 27.3%.

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