Overnight count left Sweden's blocs effectively tied, about 20,000 votes apart, with final overseas votes delayed until Wednesday. Magdalena Andersson claimed readiness to govern while Jimmie Ă kesson fell silent, a setback Riikka Purra called a terrible disappointment.
By morning focus moved to Rovaniemi, where EU leaders met after Russia's drone strike on a locomotive on the Warsaw-Kyiv line. President Stubb announced Finland would join France's European nuclear deterrence initiative, stressing no peacetime deployment, a move the Kremlin said it did not understand.
By evening attention shifted to Washington, as Donald Trump said he was not pleased with Google's billion-euro data-centre investment in Finland, blaming difficult US permits.