Finland's biggest opposition party, the Social Democrats, has widened the lead over Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's National Coalition Party, according to the latest party support survey by newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
Compared to the paper's survey last month the SDP gained 1.1 percentage points. Now, 22 percent of respondents said they supported the Social Democrats.
A political support survey published by Yle earlier this month also saw the SDP leading in popularity.
Next in line was Orpo's National Coalition, at 20.6 percent of support. The Finns Party, which belongs to the four-party coalition government, received 15.6 percent of support from respondents.
The paper suggested that public disagreements between the NCP and Finns Party about issues including the government's anti-racism campaign haven't affected the amount of support they received.
Support for the other two government parties, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats, remained at four percent, according to HS.
The opposition Centre Party received 12 percent of support in the newspaper's survey. The Left Alliance, which is also in the opposition, saw the biggest decline (1.2%) in support compared to last month, and garnered 8.9 percent of support.
Support for the Greens slightly increased to 8.3 percent, according to the survey.
Helsingin Sanomat's survey was carried out by research firm Verian and queried more than 2,400 people by telephone between August 19 and 13 September.
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