Finland‘s centre-right chief Petteri Orpo claimed victory in Sunday’s basic election, with the far-right Finns Party in second place forward of Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats in third.

“This was a great victory,” Orpo, the 53-year-old head of the conservative National Coalition Party, advised his supporters, including: “On the basis of this election result… we will start negotiating a government in Finland.”

The largest occasion in parliament historically will get the primary probability to construct a authorities, and for the reason that Nineteen Nineties that occasion has all the time claimed the prime minister’s workplace.

The head of the far-right Finns Party, Riikka Purra, thanked her supporters for the occasion’s “best election result ever”.

With 96 % of votes counted, the centre-right was credited with 48 of the 200 seats in parliament, the far-right with 46 and the Social Democrats with 43.