The Green League,shortened to the Greens,is a green political party in Finland.
The Centre Party,officially the Centre Party of Finland,is an agrarian political party in Finland.
Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010. He was also Chairman of the Centre Party in 2006. In his earlier career,he was a journalist. Vanhanen is the son of professor Tatu Vanhanen and Anni Tiihonen.
The Finns Party,formerly known as the True Finns,is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
Sauli VäinämöNiinistö is a Finnish politician who has served as the 12th president of Finland since March 2012.
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015. He rose to politics as a researcher specialized in the affairs of the European Union and was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 as a member of the National Coalition Party. In 2008,Stubb was appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs following a scandal surrounding his predecessor,Ilkka Kanerva. In 2011 Stubb stood for election to the Finnish Parliament for the first time and was elected MP with the second highest vote count in the election,which led to Stubb becoming the Minister for Europe and Foreign Trade in Jyrki Katainen's cabinet.
Paavo Matti Väyrynen is a Finnish politician who,in his long and eventful political career,has served,among other things,as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1977 to 1982,and again from 1983 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1993. He is a former member of the Finnish Parliament who has represented the Seven Star Movement,the Citizen's Party and Centre Party. He is currently member of Centre Party.
Timo Juhani Soini is a Finnish politician who is the co-founder and former leader of the Finns Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2015 to 2017 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2019.
Ben Berl Zyskowicz is a Finnish politician and member of parliament. Zyskowicz was chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party's parliamentary group from 1993 to 2006,and has been a member of parliament for the National Coalition Party since 1979. He was the first Jew to be elected to the Finnish parliament. Following the parliamentary elections in April 2011,Zyskowicz was elected as the speaker of the parliament for the duration of negotiations over the governing coalition.
Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva was a Finnish politician and a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Lokalahti,now a part of Uusikaupunki in Southwest Finland. He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. Kanerva was a member of the National Coalition Party.
Presidential elections were held in Finland in January and February 2012. The first round took place on 22 January 2012 with advance voting between 11 and 17 January. Since no candidate received a majority of the vote,a second round was held on 5 February,with advance voting between 25 and 31 January. Sauli Niinistöwas elected the President of Finland for a term from 1 March 2012 until 1 March 2018.
Antti Petteri Orpo is a Finnish politician currently serving as the prime minister of Finland since 2023 and as the leader of the National Coalition Party since 2016. He briefly served as speaker of the Parliament of Finland after the 2023 parliamentary election.
Anne-Catherine Berner is a Swiss-Finnish business executive,board professional,and the former Minister of Transport and Communications. In 2015,Berner was elected Member of the Finnish Parliament from the electoral district of Uusimaa as a non-attached candidate representing the Centre Party. Berner uses Swiss German as her mother tongue within the family,and is fluent in Finnish,Swedish,German,English and French.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2018. The incumbent Sauli Niinistöreceived 62.7% of the vote and was elected for a second term,avoiding a second round. The term is from 1 March 2018 to 1 February 2024 (if 2024 presidential election doesn't go to a second ballot) or 1 March 2024. Although the President is elected by direct election,Niinistögained a plurality in all municipalities and a majority in all but 13 municipalities.
Li Sigrid Andersson is a Finnish politician who served as Minister of Education from 2019 to 2023. The leader of the Left Alliance,she has been a Member of Parliament since 2015. She is also the city councilor of Turku and was the chair of the party's youth wing,Left Youth.
Elina Maria Valtonen is a Finnish politician who has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Petteri Orpo since 2023. A member of the National Coalition Party (NCP),she has represented the constituency of Uusimaa in the Parliament of Finland since 2014. In the 2021 muicipal election she collected the second-highest number of votes in Helsinki and was elected a member of its city council.
The Finnish Reform Movement,previously known as Blue Reform,was a Finnish conservative political party.
Lassi Vilhelm Junnila is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland,representing the constituency of Finland Proper. He is a member of the Finns Party. He is currently a member in three committees:the Constitutional Law Committee,the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Intelligence Oversight Committee. He is also a member in the Finnish delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and Finns Party parliamentary group´s vice chairperson.
Minna Arve is a Finnish politician who serves as the mayor of Turku. Since August 2021 the post of the mayor became an elected office instead of a hired position. She represents the National Coalition Party.
Annika Anita Lapintie is a Finnish Left Alliance Member of Parliament (1995–2019) and Member of Turku City Council (1989–2012). Lapintie was the chairman of the Left Alliance parliamentary group in Finland from 2006 to 2015. He chaired the Constitutional Affairs Committee from 2015 to 2019.
