Finns Choose New President for NATO Era With Russia in Mind

People walk by election posters with the Presidential Palace in the background, in Helsinki, Finland, Jan. 27, 2024, ahead of the Finnish presidential election on Jan. 28. Presidential candidates Olli Rehn, Pekka Haavisto, Jussi Halla-aho and Alexander Stubb sit in the MTV studio before the presidential elections debate in Helsinki, Finland, Jan. 24, 2024. (Lehtikuva/via Reuters)

Finland elects a new president on Sunday to lead the country in its new role within NATO after it broke with decades of non-alignment to join the Western defense alliance in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.