Government formation talks dominate the news agenda after the first day of official negotiations. Tuesday was dedicated to background talks on different topics, with experts invited in to give a presentation and discuss the issues with negotiators.
That immediately gave rise to a controversy, reported in Kauppalehti and elsewhere, over Prime Minister-elect Petteri Orpo's choice of climate expert. He had invited Petteri Taalas, the General Secretary of the World Meteorological Organisation, but nobody from Finland's Climate Panel.
The Climate Panel has a legally-mandated role in setting the parameters of Finnish climate policy, according to the Climate Change Act, so its omission prompted some consternation among politicians not involved in the negotiations.
In 2019 Climate Panel chair Markku Ollikainen was involved in the talks which led to the setting of a target of 2035 for Finland to reach carbon neutrality.
Taalas has publicly wondered why the debate on climate policy in Finland has focused on carbon sinks, which are collapsing. In other countries the discussion is focused on emissions cuts, according to Taalas. He has also questioned Finland's obligations related to carbon sinks under EU rules, a very different position to Ollikainen and one that asks less from the Finnish forest industry.
KL quoted Left Alliance leader Li Andersson's tweet saying the decision was "concerning", while Green MP Atte Harjanne said the move was "absurd".
Those outbursts have been criticised by environmentalists and climate scientists, with the Finnish Nature League publishing an open letter before the election asking the WMO if their General Secretary's views align with the organisation's own climate stance.
Helsingin Sanomat also has news from the climate section of the negotiations, reporting that a former National Coalition Party MEP who has called climate science "corrupted" is part of the group discussing climate policy.
Eija-Riitta Korhola resigned from the party in February, citing what she called "naivety" in the party's climate policies and claiming that researchers exaggerated the threat from climate change in order to secure funding. She is a former Christian Democrat, but told HS she remains independent for now and is there as an advisor to the CD's party leader Sari Essayah.
The Christian Democrats, National Coalition Party, Swedish People's Party and Finns Party are cloistered at the House of the Estates in Helsinki trying to agree a programme for a coalition government.
Negotiations started on Tuesday and are expected to last for several weeks.
Selänne's political turn
Retired Finnish ice hockey player Teemu Selänne has taken a more active approach to politics in recent years. Helsingin Sanomat has a story on Selänne's political turn, including quotes from the man himself on his new-found interest in wider society.
"I would never have imagined that I would have become interested in politics," says Selänne. "It has been a nice hobby. I am not otherwise interested in getting involved in politics, but I enjoy following it here and also in Finland."
Resident in Orange County, southern California, he is known in Finland as a supporter of former president Donald Trump. Selänne claims he is not a huge supporter of Trump, although he has played golf with the former president, but in 2016 he regarded him as a better option than Hilary Clinton.
He also frequently tweets his support for candidates in Finnish elections, most recently the National Coalition Party's Tere Sammallahti. Styling himself as "an attacking right winger" in his Twitter bio, Samallahti calls for lower taxes, cuts to state benefits and a smaller state while also criticising what he calls "woke" politics.
Selänne is also keen to offer his thoughts on culture war questions, criticising a government proposal to promote climate-friendly dietary choices earlier this year and asking if the government should intervene in people's decisions about what to eat.
Former Green leader Ville Niinistö responded that the government already does that, in the form of plentiful subsidies for meat production, and a removal of those subsidies would likely make vegetarian lifestyles more attractive.
Selänne says he tries to take a balanced view, watching both the right wing Fox News channel and CNN, but says politics can be a dishonest game and he thinks both (US) parties are "unscrupulous".
Havis Amanda removal
All the papers cover the removal of Helsinki's Havis Amanda statue for renovation. The landmark is going to be out of action for a year, meaning next year's May Day celebrations will have a different focus.
Ilta-Sanomat has a live stream of the removal, as the statue is taken elsewhere to be restored. The 115-year-old sculpture has taken a battering down the years, with celebrations of all kinds of holidays and sporting successes held at the fountain by the capital's South Harbour.
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