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Thu, 13 Oct, 2016 12:10:11 AM Parliamentary polls FTimes – STT Report, Oct 13  Parliamentary Studies Center researchers. Photo – Lehtikuva. Parliamentary election campaign funds could one day be facing limits, which would affect the chances of some candidates of being elected.
The proposal was published on Wednesday in the book Kamppailu Vallasta [Struggle for Power] by four researchers.
Additionally, they suggest implementing an equalising system similar to the Swedish model, where the numbers of parties in parliament more closely follows how the whole country votes.
The book was written by Centre for Parliamentary Studies scholars Erkka Railo, Mari K. Niemi and Sini Ruohonen, as well as E2 think-tank researcher Ville Pitkänen.
The book describes the development of election campaigns all the way from post-war Finland up to last year’s parliamentary elections.
After the war, there were separate political parties that represented farmers, the working class, the intelligentsia and the bourgeoisie, and cooperation among parties was difficult.
In the 1958 parliamentary elections, 80 per cent of voters simply chose their party candidate.
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