For months now, polling organisations have given Finland's opposition Centre Party a six-point lead oover outgoing Prime Minister Alexander Stubb's Conservatives, despite a slight rise in recent days in the latter's popularity. Nonetheless, Juha Sipilä's centrists are expected to win around 24% of the vote, thereby ousting the Conservative National Coalition Party, which has been in power since 2011.
Sipilä, 54, has been an MP since 2011, when the Centre Party went into opposition, but has no experience in government.…