in 3 weeks!
When Annikki's mother is at home, Annikki just does not have the opportunity to step out of the house.
But this Sunday was special.
It was election day to elect the Finnish President. Annikki is so emotional about this subject, she took 15 minutes off from her gruelling routine to go and cast her vote. It took just 15 minutes - and thank God it does not involve any fancy computer equipment. Just a piece of paper and a pen and all she had to do was write a number in a circle!!
The polls closed at 20:00 hours and the results, in this high tech country using low tech for safe voting, were out by 21:30.
Annikki has a particular vengance against the present Prime Minister of Finland, Matti Vanhanen, who engineered a coup to get rid of Finland's first elected woman Prime Minister, Anneli Jäteenmäki.
Working with the previous Prime Minister, Paavo Lipponen, who was bitter at having lost his post, Matti Vanhanen worked against his own party member to overthrow her.
Further, Annikki firmly believes that this unscrupulous man separated from his wife so that he could appear to the voters as an eligible bachelor!
Anneli Jäteenmäki and the present President, Tarja Halonen, have been firmly anti-war and anti-Bush, which made them at odds with the macho male power brokers of Finland who want to play games with their war toys.
Incumbent Tarja Halonen of the Social Democrat Party and Left Alliance took 46.3% of the vote; Sauli Niinistö of the Conservative National Coalition Party with 24.1% won the runner-up spot from Matti Vanhanen of the Centre Party, the present Prime Minister.
There will be a second round of voting to determine who becomes the next President of Finland, between incumbent Tarja Halonen (SDP, Left Alliance) and the former Finance Minister Sauli Niinistö (National Coalition Party).
Without doubt Tarja will walk away with the prize in the second round of voting - a well deserved victory.
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