translated from Spanish: Government of Finland resigns by failure in social reforms and health

The Finnish Prime Minister and leader of the Centre Party, Juha Sipilä, on Friday presented the resignation of his centre-right government, after having failed in their attempt to adopt a programme of social reforms and the health system, an He yoked the Finnish Presidency.
Sipilä delivered his resignation request to the Finnish President, Sauli Niinistö, who accepted the resignation and asked him to continue to lead the Executive Office until the holding of the elections, scheduled for April 14, according to local media.
Government had announced that he would resign if he failed with reforms the coalition Government, formed by the centrists, the undersigned formation conservatives and populists of future blue (a spin-off of the ultra-right true Finns), considered the reforms one of the central points of his program and had threatened to resign if they failed.
According to experts, the Finnish population has one of the fastest aging rates in Europe, which threatens the sustainability of public finances in the long term due to the strong increase in spending on health and social security.
General consensus on reform, not in terms of model the vast majority of Finnish politicians agree on the need to undertake a reform of the system and take nearly a decade to debate this issue, but they disagree on what should be the new model.
After repeated attempts, the three parties of the current Government managed to reach an agreement, but the final proposal was shot down by the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs, considering that it did not respect the equal rights of all the Finns.

Original source in Spanish

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