Daily Finland
Majority of Finnish people believed that the present four-party alliance government led by conservative Kansallinen Kokoomus (National Coalition Party-NCP) has failed in most of the policy areas, according to a survey commissioned by the Foundation for Municipal Development (Kaks). About 76 percent people think that government handled the employment issue poorly while 70 percent expressed dissatisfaction over badly handling of social and healthcare issues, said the survey results released on Saturday. About 71 percent of the respondents said that the government is poorly handling the country´s economy and 56 percent expressed dissatisfaction over handing the education. The government got positive rating only in handling the foreign security and defence policy issue where 54 percent of respondents expressed satisfaction while 37 percent saw government success in handling European Union affairs. Only 17 percent respondents were happy with government activities in taking care of the needs of themselves and their families where 48 percent respondents were unhappy. The survey compared the performance of the Prime Minister Petteri Orpo-led government formed with Kokoomus, Perussuomalaiset (Finns Party), Suomenruotsalainenkansanpuolue (Swedish Peoples Party of Finland-RKP) and Suomen Kristillisdemokraati (Christian Democratic Party-CD) three years ago with the performance of theprevious Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (Social Democratic Party of Finland-SDP) led alliance government headed by Sanna Marin. The previous Marin government received better rating in almost all sectors. The survey was conducted by research organisation Verian from March 28 to April 1, 2026 through interviewing 1020 people. The margin error is under ± 3 percentage points.
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