Most executive power lies in the cabinet ( the Finnish Council of State ) headed by the prime minister.

The power struggle between the Finnish estates and the Russian administration had given them a concrete role model and space for the labor movement.

On the other side, due to at least a century-long tradition and experience of administrative leadership, the Finnish elite saw itself as the inherent natural power in the Grand Duchy.

Workers demanded food and a complete shifting of legislative power from the Russian Provisional Government | Russian government to the Parliament of Finland | Finnish parliament.

Autonomous status was returned to the Finns in March 1917, and the revolt in Russia handed the Finnish Parliament true political power for the first time.

The " Power Act " incorporated a plan by the Social Democrats to substantially increase and concentrate the power of Parliament, as a reaction to the non-parliamentary and conservative leadership of the Finnish Senate between 1906-1916.

In order to win power and carry out political reforms, the socialists had to overcome the Finnish Parliament.

By autumn 1917, in the power vacuum following the dissolution of parliament and in the absence of a stable government or a Finnish army, such forces began assuming a more military character.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

The presence of the two opposing armed forces in Finland, the Red and the White Guards, imposed a state of " dual power " and " multiple sovereignty " on Finnish society, typically the prelude to civil war.

The economic collapse of Russia and the political power struggle of the Finnish state during 1917 were among the key factors that brought sovereignty to the fore in Finland.

The Bolshevik government's recognition of Finnish independence was the first expression of Lenin's power political strategy and ideology ; the right of nations to self-determination.

The third and final culmination of the power struggle between the Finns and the disintegration of Finnish society had begun.

Lipponen criticised the way many Finnish and German politicians were opposed to nuclear power and stated that their fundamentalism destroys both energy security and climate policy.

* SA ( Sonata Arctica ), a Finnish power metal band

* The Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn has a song called Sampo on their 2010 album End of Eden.

During Kekkonen's term, the balance of power between the Finnish Council of State and the President tilted heavily towards the President.

Furthermore, the manifesto also fails to separate which laws are to be considered local or imperial, leading the Finns to fear that any law could be considered as imperial, therefore in fact stripping the Finnish diet of all its legislative power.

* The Emancipation suite, a series of songs present on Finnish power metal band Stratovarius's 2009 album Polaris.

In Svinhufvud's opinion, the Finnish President had enough power to lead the country, provided that the President had a strong personality.

Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band that formed in 1982 as Black Water.

Category: Finnish power metal musical groups

Under the Finnish constitution, executive power is vested in the President and the government, with the President possessing only residual powers.

The loss of Finland to Russia in the Finnish War, settled in the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, provided momentum for the Swedish nobility and other forces to depose the king and restore political power to parliament.

* 1975 – Tomi Joutsen, Finnish metal vocalist ( Amorphis )

* Charon ( band ), a Finnish gothic metal band

The Finnish metal band Nightwish mentions Carter in the song " Tutankhamun " on its début album Angels Fall First: " For Carter has come / To free my beloved ".

It has gained popularity amongst Finnish heavy metal composers, such as Amorphis.

* The Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis has a song called Sampo on their 2009 album " Skyforger ".

** Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish metal keyboardist ( Nightwish )

Many Finnish heavy metal bands like Impaled Nazarene and Norther use the word perkele for emphasis and to reference Finnishness.

For the Finnish heavy metal band, see Falchion ( band ).

* Oz ( band ), a Finnish heavy metal band

* The Finnish black metal band Enochian Crescent is strongly influenced by the Enochian language.

Another early contributor to folk metal is the Finnish group Amorphis.

The music of Finntroll features a " real innovation " in the marriage of black metal music with a style of Finnish polka called humppa.

Andy Hinds of Allmusic laments the polka influence as undermining " the intended threat of a death metal band " while his colleague Alex Henderson praises the band for their " solid, consistently likable effort ," declaring that Finntroll has set themselves apart from their peers " because of their emphasis on Finnish humppa " and " the humor and irony they bring to the table.

While Korpiklaani used an assortment of traditional instruments to deliver their folk metal, Finntroll relies on keyboards for Finnish folk melodies played in the humppa style.

* The Shining, an album by Finnish metal band IneartheD, later named Children of Bodom

In French heraldry, the colour is usually excluded from the common colours as well as considered " ambiguous " ( could be either colour or metal ), and Finnish heraldry restricts its use to certain additaments.

Category: Finnish heavy metal singers

Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium has transposed and used Hölderlin's verses in several songs.

The Finnish symphonic metal band Katra made a cover in Finnish of " Hijo de la Luna " as " Kuunpoika " in their 2008 album Beast Within.

Finnish band Hanoi Rocks have been credited with setting a blueprint for the look of hair metal.