Finland will witness decisive legislative elections on Sunday, in which the Social Democratic Prime Minister, Sanna Marin , will confront the right and the far right in an attempt to stay in power. Below is information about the elections and the Scandinavian country .

Finland was part of Sweden until 1809 before it turned into a Russian grand duchy until its independence during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Swedish is still an official language alongside Finnish, and a first language for about 5 percent of Finns.

Finland seized the opportunity of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 to declare its independence, which led to a civil war between the "Reds" and the "Whites".

And invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939 after the German-Soviet treaty, Finland resisted valiantly during the three months of the Winter War, but after the resumption of the conflict in 1941, the war ended in defeat.

Under a "friendship" treaty signed in 1948 under pressure from Moscow, Helsinki agreed to remain outside Western military cooperation, in a form of compulsory neutrality called "Finnishness".

At the end of the Cold War, Finland entered the European Union and took root in the West, but it did not decide to join NATO until after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

The most recent polls predicted the Social Democrats, the center-right and the far-right would be tied, each with just under 20 percent of voting intentions. So it is difficult to predict the future majority.

The leader of the party that comes in the vanguard holds the position of prime minister, provided that he can form a coalition. Analysts believe that the Finns Party (far-right), led by Rika Bora, may break its previous record recorded in 2011 (19.05%), in the midst of the wave of inflation. Which raises his fortunes, bearing in mind that the Eurosceptic, populist, and anti-immigration formation never triumphed.

The center-right National Coalition Party, led by Petteri Orbo, may tend to ally with the Finns' Party, as in 2015.

Another option is a red-blue alliance between Marin and Urbo.

Of the eight major parties, seven are led by women. Finland is at the forefront of the world's countries in the field of gender equality.

When Sanna Marin came to power in 2019 as the third female prime minister, images of her alliance of five parties, all led by women, went viral.

The Finnish parliament was the first in the world to have women deputies, when the country was still Russian. Women MPs currently represent 47 percent of the outgoing parliament.

Finland has one of the lowest numbers of foreign-born residents in Europe (7 percent), according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

But the acceleration of the arrival of arrivals encouraged the emergence of the Finns' party, which followed a more hard line after a split in 2017. Referring to the guerrilla war taking place in neighboring Sweden, the party wanted to tighten immigration policy similar to another northern neighbor, Denmark, with the aim of "saving Finland" from the "model The Swede.

The National Coalition believes that immigration is a solution to the aging population, while Sanna Marin refuses any cooperation with the "openly racist" Finns Party.

A red-blue alliance will be complicated by economic differences, as the right has waged a campaign accusing the government of fiscal irresponsibility.

The Finns are known as a humble people, and they were ranked as the happiest people in the world in March for the sixth year in a row, in a ranking sponsored by the United Nations.

The country includes thousands of lakes and forests spread all over it, with a population of 5.5 million people, and extends over more than 330 thousand square kilometers, and enjoys an effective social model, limited aspects of inequality, and in which the authorities enjoy high confidence.

With the Finns facing frost for almost half a year, they also occupy the lead in the number of saunas, which reached three million, exceeding the number of cars.

However, Finland's first place on the list of the world's happiest countries came as a surprise in 2018, with many locals describing themselves as taciturn and gloomy.