He helped get Finns into NATO, now he gets them dancing. Will DJ Pexi be president?

By Anne Kauranen and Attila Cser HELSINKI (Reuters) – As Finland's foreign minister for the past four years, Pekka Haavisto helped overturn decades of neutrality to bring Finns into NATO. Now, as ‘DJ Pexi', he is spinning records to get them onto the dancefloor – and win an election to be president. On Friday night in a trendy Helsinki neighbourhood, Haavisto drew some 200 students to a club. The 65-year-old centre-left Liberal Green frontrunner got the young crowd up on its feet with an unapologetically old school playlist, mostly of hits from his own generation, like the Beatles jaded politi…

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