The National Coalition Party is a conservative political party in Finland, founded in 1918 and one of the three big parties that have long dominated Finnish national politics, along with the Social Democratic Party and the Centre Party. Literature describes it as liberal, conservative and liberal-conservative on the centre-right, and its foreign stance is pro-NATO and pro-European; it belongs to the European People's Party. Its chair since 2016 has been Petteri Orpo. It is the current governing party of Finland and has been out of coalition governments for only eight years since the 1990s.
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Source Petteri Orpo (Wikipedia)
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1. National Coalition Party (Wikipedia)
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The National Coalition Party (NCP; Finnish: Kansallinen Kokoomus [ˈkɑnsɑlːinen ˈko̞ko̞ːmus], Kok; Swedish: Nationella Samlingspartiet, Saml) is a conservative political
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Founded in 1918, the National Coalition Party
View the SourcePetteri Orpo (Wikipedia)
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He has also been the leader of the National Coalition Party since 2016
Finland (Wikipedia)
In Group: Parties of Parliamentary Systems and Constitutional Monarchies, Government and politics section of the country articleQuote, In Group: Parties of Parliamentary Systems and Constitutional Monarchies, Government and politics section of the country article
Finland is a parliamentary republic within the framework of a representative democracy
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