Emanuel Kolkki (22 November 1869, Kuru - 17 March 1940) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Finnish Party from 1907 to 1909 and the National Coalition Party from 1930 to 1933. [1]
The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that power is vested in the Parliament. The Parliament consists of 200 members, 199 of whom are elected every four years from 13 multi-member districts electing 6 to 37 members using the proportional D'Hondt method. In addition, there is one member from Åland.
Satu Maijastiina Hassi is a Finnish politician, and former Member of the European Parliament for the Green League. She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002. In accordance with her party's position on the issue, she quit the cabinet in protest of the government's decision to build a fifth nuclear power plant in Finland. Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001. She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004; she left the parliament when she was elected to the European Parliament as the sole Finnish Green representative in the 2004 election.
Muhos is a municipality of northern Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu half an hour's drive (35 km) on route 22 from the city of Oulu, the capital of Northern Finland, and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 8,761 and covers an area of 797.26 square kilometres (307.82 sq mi) of which 13.78 km2 (5.32 sq mi) is water. The population density is 11.17 inhabitants per square kilometre (28.9/sq mi).
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 16 March 2003. The Centre Party led by Anneli Jäätteenmäki overtook the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to become the largest party in the Eduskunta. This was credited mainly to Jäätteenmäki's powerful leadership and modernization of the party still often viewed as agrarian and conservative by many. However, the SDP actually won some seats and increased its share of the vote, losing in the number of total popular votes only by a few thousand.
The Iraq leak is a series of events that began on 6 March 2003 from a statement given by Anneli Jäätteenmäki, leader of the Finnish Centre Party, in a televised election debate prior to the 2003 parliamentary election. Jäätteenmäki accused Paavo Lipponen, the then Prime Minister of Finland, of attaching Finland to George W. Bush's 'coalition of the willing' that was in preparation for the 2003 war in Iraq. Lipponen had visited Washington on 9 December 2002.
Reijo Mauri Matias Pekkarinen is a Finnish politician. He most recently served as a Member of European Parliament for Finland between 2019 and 2024. He is the Centre Party of Finland deputy and secretary, having served in various cabinet position in the Finnish government, including as Minister of Economic Affairs, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of the Interior, as well as a member of parliament. He is known by the nickname "The Parliament Terrier".
Kimmo Kalevi Tiilikainen is a Finnish politician from the Centre Party. He is an organic farmer and forester. Tiilikainen served as the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment from 2015 to 2019. He is also a former Minister of the Environment of Finland from 2007 to 2008.
Juho Seppo Antero Eerola is a Finnish politician of the Finns Party. He was elected to the Finnish Parliament in the 2011 election. He is also a member of the city council of Kotka. In the True Finns' party conference of 2011 Eerola was elected as the party's second vice-chairman, and in the conference of 2013 he was elected as the third vice-chairman. Eerola is a former member of the nationalist organisation Suomen Sisu: he resigned his membership in 2012 when he felt that people outside the party were using the issue as a wedge against him and the party.
Uuno Edvard Brander was a Finnish agronomist, civil servant, farmer and politician, born in Kitee. He served as Minister of Agriculture from 27 November 1918 to 17 April 1919 and as Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 22 December 1928 to 18 August 1929. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Young Finnish Party from 1907 to 1910 and from 1911 to 1917 and the National Progressive Party from 1924 to 1927 and from 1930 to 1933. He was the younger brother of Augusta Laine and the elder brother of Helena and Akseli Brander. Johannes Laine was his brother-in-law.
Eino Ojajärvi was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the People's Party of Finland from 1962 to 1965 and the Liberal People's Party from 1965 to 1966. He was later active in the Finnish Christian League.
Leonard Typpö was a Finnish farmer and lay preacher, born in Rautio. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1911 until his death in 1922, representing the Finnish Party from 1911 to 1918 and the National Coalition Party from 1918 to 1922.
Yrjö Efraim Kivenoja was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. At first a member of the National Coalition Party, he later joined the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL), which he represented in the Parliament of Finland from 1933 to 1936.
Iisakki Elias Nikkola was a Finnish politician, born in Kurikka. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland as a representative of the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) from 1933 to 1944, as an Independent from 1944 to 1945 and as a representative of the National Coalition Party from 1951 to 1952.
Ritva Kaarina Dromberg is a Finnish politician. She served as Minister of Culture from 5 June 2002 to 17 July 2003. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1983 to 2007, representing the National Coalition Party. She helped create the Network of Finnish Women Members of Parliament.
David (Taavi) Tainio was a Finnish journalist and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1909, from 1911 to 1913 and from 1922 until his death in 1929, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). He was the chairman of the SDP from 1903 to 1905 and party secretary from 1918 to 1926. He was imprisoned for a while in 1918 for having sided with the Reds during the Finnish Civil War.
Aale Johannes Sariola was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician, born in Oulu. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1916 to 1917, representing the Finnish Party.
Artur Oliver Wuorimaa was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Diet of Finland in 1897 and of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1910 and from 1911 to 1913, representing the Finnish Party and again from 1917 to 1921, representing the Agrarian League.
Artturi Antero Niemelä was a Finnish homesteader and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Finnish Rural Party (SMP) from 1970 to 1972 and the Finnish People's Unity Party (SKYP) from 1972 to 1975. He was born in Kemijärvi. He died in April 2021 at the age of 97.
Unto Uuno Mikael Varjonen was a Finnish politician who belonged to the right wing of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). He served as Minister without portfolio from 29 July to 19 August 1949 and as Deputy Minister of Finance from 19 August 1949 to 17 March 1950. He was a Member of the Parliament of Finland from 1948 to 1951.