Finland's centrist Prime Minister Juha Sipila said Monday that his party and its conservative allies wanted to end their governing coalition with the eurosceptic Finns party, after it elected as president a hardliner convicted of hate speech.

"The conditions do not exist that allow us to cooperate with the Finns led by Halla-aho," Sipila said on Twitter, referring to Jussi Halla-aho, who was named the party's new leader on Saturday.