Paavo Tapio Lipponen is a Finnish politician and former reporter. He was prime minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003,and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005. He also served as speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 to 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6.7% of the votes,making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party had ever received in Finnish presidential elections at the time. Lipponen is currently the oldest living former prime minister of Finland.
The National Coalition Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Finland.
Jyrki Tapani Katainen is a Finnish politician who served as the European Commission's Vice-President for Jobs,Growth,Investment and Competitiveness from 2014 until 2019. Katainen was previously Prime Minister of Finland from 2011 to 2014 and chairman of the National Coalition Party from 2004 to 2014. He was succeeded by Alexander Stubb as chairman of Finland's National Coalition Party. After stepping down as Prime Minister,Katainen was elected as European Commission Vice-President in July 2014.
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician currently serving as the 13th president of Finland since 1 March 2024,having won the 2024 presidential election. He previously served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015.
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.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 18 March 2007. Early voting was possible from the 7–13 March. The 200 members of the Eduskunta were elected from 15 constituencies.
Jutta Pauliina Urpilainen is a Finnish politician. She was the first female chair of the Social Democratic Party of Finland,which she led from 2008 to 2014. She was the Minister of Finance as well as the Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2011 to 2014. Since 1 December 2019,she is the European Commissioner for International Partnerships in the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen. She announced her candidacy for the 2024 election for President of Finland in November 2023.
The response to a school shooting that occurred at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki,a city in Western Finland,on 23 September 2008 was widespread. In the shooting,22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Juhani Saari shot and killed ten people before committing suicide. Eight people had been killed ten months before in the Jokela school shooting in southern Finland.
Mari Johanna Kiviniemi is a Finnish politician,who served as the 41st and second female Prime Minister of Finland from 2010 to 2011.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 17 April 2011 after the termination of the previous parliamentary term. Advance voting,which included voting by Finnish expatriates,was held between 6 and 12 April with a turnout of 31.2%.
The Katainen Cabinet was the 72nd cabinet of Finland,formed as a result of the 2011 post-parliamentary election negotiations between the Finnish parliamentary parties. Led by Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen of the National Coalition Party (NCP),12 ministers of the 19-minister government represented the NCP and the Social Democratic Party (SDP),while the Left Alliance,the Green League,the Swedish People's Party (RKP) and the Christian Democrats share seven minister portfolios. On June 22,the Parliament confirmed Katainen's election as the Prime Minister and President Tarja Halonen inaugurated the government. Two Left Alliance MPs voted against Katainen,for which they were formally reprimanded by the Left Alliance's parliamentary group. On 25 March 2014,the rest of Left Alliance left the cabinet over dispute on a package of spending cuts and tax rises.
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is a social democratic and pro-European political party in Finland. It is the third largest party in the Parliament of Finland with 43 seats. Founded in 1899 as the Workers' Party of Finland,the SDP is Finland's oldest active political party and has a close relationship with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. It is also a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance,Socialist International and SAMAK.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 19 April 2015,with advance voting taking place from 8 to 14 April. The 200 members of the Parliament of Finland were elected with the proportional D'Hondt method.
Antti Juhani Rinne is a Finnish politician who served as speaker of the Parliament of Finland from April to June 2019 and Prime Minister of Finland from June to December 2019. He led the Social Democratic Party from 2014 until 2020. In August 2023,he was hired as the General Secretary of SAMAK for a three-year term.
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.
Following the 2011 election,a new government was negotiated between the leading parties of the Finnish parliament.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the Parliament of Finland.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2024,with a second round held on 11 February. Voters elected a president of the Republic for a six-year term. Incumbent president Sauli Niinistöwas term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election,having served the maximum two terms,ensuring the president elected would be the country's thirteenth.
