Social Democratic Party Chairman Antti Rinne celebrates the results of the Finland's municipal elections in Helsinki, Finland on Sunday, April 9, 2017. Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen/via REUTERS
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The two leading candidates to become Finland's next prime minister signalled on Wednesday they would not work with the eurosceptic Finns Party after 2019 elections, hitting the nationalists' chances of returning to government.
Antti Rinne, the head of the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, said it was "very difficult to imagine that we would go into a government with the Finns Party," in a meeting with reporters.
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