Understanding garbage collection in .NET

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Consider the below code:

public class Class1
{
    public static int c;
    ~Class1()
    {
        c++;
    }
}

public class Class2
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        {
            var c1=new Class1();
            //c1=null; // If this line is not commented out, at the Console.WriteLine call, it prints 1.
        }
        GC.Collect();
        GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
        Console.WriteLine(Class1.c); // prints 0
        Console.Read();
    }
}

Now, even though the variable c1 in the main method is out of scope and not referenced further by any other object when GC.Collect() is called, why is it not finalized there?

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