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 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.
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.
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 political party in Finland. It is the third largest party in the Parliament of Finland with 43 seats.
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.
Antti Petteri Orpo is a Finnish politician 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.
Laura Kaarina Räty is a Finnish politician,former Minister of Social Affairs and Health and a business director at the Finnish private hospital corporate group Terveystalo.
Following the 2011 election,a new government was negotiated between the leading parties of the Finnish parliament.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 14 April 2019. For the first time,no party received more than 20% of the vote. The Centre Party,which had been the largest party following the 2015 elections,dropped to fourth place,losing 18 seats and recording its lowest vote share since 1917. The Social Democratic Party saw the biggest gains,winning six more seats and narrowly becoming the largest party for the first time since 1999. The Green League and the Left Alliance also gained five and four seats respectively.
Sanna Mirella Marin is a Finnish politician who has served as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) since 2020. A member of Parliament since 2015,she previously served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the Parliament of Finland.
