Finland votes Sunday in a general election in which the centre-right government looks set to be toppled after four years of cuts, while the far-right is predicted to make large gains.
The far-right Finns Party, led by hardline MEP Jussi Halla-aho, have seen a surge in support in recent months during their anti-immigration dominated campaign, urging people to "Vote for some borders".
The Social Democratic Party challenger, headed by Antti Rinne, leads both of Finland's main opinion polls at around 19 percent.
It campaigned against the austerity implemented by the Centre Party Prime Minister Juha Sipila and his Finance Minister Petteri Orpo, leader of the conservative National Coalition Party.
However, polls suggest the Social Democrats' lead has narrowed in recent weeks to as little as two points ahead of both the National Coalition and Finns, which are neck-and-neck in second place.
At a rally on Saturday in Myyrmaki, a disadvantaged suburb of the capital, a crowd of people young and old clamoured around Halla-aho, asking for autographs and congratulating him on the Finns Party's campaign.
"You will be the next prime minister," one woman assured him. Forecasts suggest that no party is likely to draw more than 20 percent of the vote, meaning the result could be historically close.
If so, this will make negotiations to form a governing coalition particularly difficult, not least because the major parties have all expressed strong reservations about joining a government with the Finns Party, whose policies took a further lurch to the right after
"For example the cuts the government has made to education have been very much criticised because education is something that we in Finland very much treasure."