Finland Postpones Local Elections to June as Pandemic Worsens
Voluntary virus tests at the border at the border between Finland and Sweden in Tornio, Finland.
Photographer: Jyrki Nikkila/AFP/Getty Images
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Finland is postponing its countrywide local elections by two months as the coronavirus pandemic takes a turn for the worse.
Eight of nine parliamentary parties support moving the municipal vote to June 13 from April 18, Justice Minister Anna-Maja Henriksson said in a message posted on Twitter on Saturday.