Finland elections, challenge between women: Sanna Marin against Riikka Purra, the leader of the extreme right. Here’s what can change for Italy

HELSINKI – “Our long-term goal remains the exit from the EU”. When Finnish far-right leader Riikka Purra said these words in late January, the head of the centre-right Petteri Orpo, whose party is firmly anchored in the EPP, had a jolt. Yet Sunday evening, when the first results of the legislative elections arrive, he could be forced to form a government with precisely this openly anti-European and anti-migrant formation.