To put it briefly, it is because they have already been in power and, when they get power, they lose momentum, said Marlene Wind, director of the Centre for European Politics and professor at the University of Copenhagen. You need to have them governing for a long period of time to demonstrate that it is actually hard and difficult to run a country.
In Finland, the ruling liberal-conservative party took the top spot with four seats and 25% of the vote, but it was the surge for the Left Alliance from one seat to three that was the shock of the night.
The left's leader, charismatic 37-year-old Li Andersson, grabbed more votes than any other politician has ever received in a European election, bagging 250,000 personal preferences in the Finnish system.
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