Finland to choose between two preisdential candidates with tough stance on Russia

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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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