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Tarja Halonen: Incumbent President Tarja Halonen
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Juhani Artto) In Finland, the incumbent President Tarja Halonen, 62, has been re-elected for another six-year term. She narrowly defeated her conservative challenger Sauli Niinistö. When elected in 2000 Halonen became Finland's first female president.
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Incumbent President Tarja Halonen remains the clear leader in opinion polls, a month before the Finnish presidential election, with indications that she would win outright in a first round of voting. A survey, conducted by Research International, gave Halonen 58 percent support over chief rivals Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, with 19 percent, and former Finance Minister Sauli Niinisto, with 18 percent. The latest opinion poll, released late Wednesday by Finland's leading commercial TV station MTV3, was conducted during the first two weeks of December. More than 1,200 people took part in the survey, which had a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
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Abstract: (Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many voters in Finland hold positive feelings toward incumbent president Tarja Halonen, according to a poll by Gallup published in Helsingin Sanomat. 63 per cent of respondents think the Social Democratic Party (SDP) member is humane and understands the life of common people.
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Halonen, who likes to paint to relax, was elected six years ago, giving the Social Democrats an unbroken hold on the office for the past 24 years. An incumbent president hasn't lost a re- election bid since 1937.
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