Sun, 24 Apr, 2016 12:18:43 AM FTimes-STT Report, Apr 24  File Photo AFP-Lehtikuva. The support among the reservists for Finland’s NATO membership application is on the decline, found a survey conducted by the Reservist Union.
A total of 41 per cent of the respondents now support Finland applying for NATO membership, which is 5.3 percentage points lower than the support registered in last October.
Support for NATO membership had dropped 8 percentage points in the last year.
The survey revealed that men are more in favour of the NATO membership than women.
A total of 42 per cent of the male respondents support the NATO application, while only 27 per cent of women support it.
About 56 per cent of the reservists, however, would support the NATO membership application, if Sweden also applies for membership.
In October 2015, 61 per cent of respondents held this opinion.
The survey conducted through interviewing about 4,000 members of the association from April 5 to April 12. The margin of error is 1.6 per cent.
Both the Finnish language news outlets Ilkka and Pohjalainen published a report on the survey results earlier.
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