Helsingin Sanomat has a report on criminality among candidates in this month's local elections. The paper trawled through candidate lists and court data to find all those candidates that were convicted of a crime in the last five years.
The good news is that fewer candidates have convictions than in the last municipal elections in 2017.
The bad news is that there are still a lot of people running for office with a criminal record, with the average percentage of convicted candidates running at 3.7 percent among the big parties.
With more than 30,000 candidates running for office, that's a decent chunk of budding politicians, but it's a reduction on 2017 when the figure was four percent.
Way out in front is the Finns Party, with 8.2 percent of candidates convicted in the last five years. That's down on the nine percent of candidates that had a conviction in 2017, but it still includes 101 assaults, 144 drunk driving or aggravated drunk driving cases, 23 cases of making illegal threats and one case of forgery, among 489 convictions in the HS dataset.
You can drill down into that dataset on the HS website.
Turnout among foreign-background voters is usually much lower than among the general population. On the All Points North podcast we asked why. You can listen to the full podcast using the embedded player here or via Yle Areena, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or your usual podcast player using the RSS feed.
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Football forever
Finland's sporting event of the summer is the men's European Championships in football, where the team has qualified for the finals for the first time ever. On Tuesday evening coach Markku Kanerva announced the squad that will play in the tournament at a relatively glitzy (for Finland) ceremony complete with squad announcement video published on social media channels.
A few surprising names were left out.
Ilta-Sanomat mentioned Juhani Ojala as the big name omission, with the centre-back left at home along with full-backs Albin Granlund and Niko Hämäläinen.
Coach Kanerva said it 'broke his heart' to tell the players who weren't going to make the final squad.
Finland's tournament gets underway in Copenhagen on Saturday 12 June, with a match against Denmark. They then play Russia and Belgium in Saint Petersburg.
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Warm weekend ahead
Iltalehti offers some optimistic reports of a weekend where the temperature could climb as high as 25 degrees, bringing warmer conditions to the many graduation parties planned for Saturday and Sunday.
It is not exactly a heatwave, says the meteorologist interviewed by IL, but there will be several days when individual places could be warmer than 25 degrees.
Inland areas south of Oulu are expected to get the best of the weather, but it is expected to be above 20 degrees during the day across most of the country.
There is a risk, however, of heavy localised downpours in the afternoons.
