  What accent do Finnish politicians speak in? Do they speak in some kind of standard Finnish? Or regional dialects?   Usually standard on TV, newspapers etc public nation wide media, but on some regions I think it is mandadory to speak dialect at least when there are no national media present.    Leveling of dialect varies. I think that generally peolpe regard speaker of savo and lappish a little stupider than others, and speaker of pohjanmaa little more than average person. And very good and fine standard, well, it's about same than Kings english.