Tarja Kaarina Halonen is a Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland,and the first and to date only woman to hold the position,from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK),and as the Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary (1974–1975) and a member of the City Council of Helsinki (1977–1996). Halonen was a Social Democratic Party member of parliament from 1979 until her election to the presidency in 2000. She also served as a minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health from 1987 to 1990,as Minister of Justice from 1990 to 1991,and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2000.
Esko Tapani Aho is a Finnish politician who was prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995.
Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki is a Finnish politician who was the first female and 39th prime minister of Finland from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003. From 2004 until 2019,she served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland.
The University of Helsinki is a public university in Helsinki,Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire,and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Tsar Alexander I. The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available. In 2022,around 31,000 students were enrolled in the degree programs of the university spread across 11 faculties and 11 research institutes.
The Christian Democrats is a Christian-democratic political party in Finland.
The Centre Party,officially the Centre Party of Finland,is an agrarian-centrist political party in Finland. Ideologically,the Centre Party is positioned in the centre of the political spectrum. It has been described as liberal,social-liberal,liberal-conservative,and conservative-liberal. The party’s leader is Antti Kaikkonen,who was elected in June 2024 to succeed former minister Annika Saarikko. As of June 2023,the party has been a part of the parliamentary opposition.
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.
Olli Ilmari Rehn is a Finnish public official who has been serving as governor of the Bank of Finland since 2018. A member of the Centre Party,he previously served as the European Commissioner for Enlargement from 2004 to 2010,European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro from 2010 to 2014,and Minister of Economic Affairs in Juha Sipilä's cabinet from 2015 until 2016. Rehn ran for President of Finland as an independent candidate in 2024,but was not elected.
Hannu Aapa Takkula is a Finnish politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. He is a member of the Centre Party,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
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 left the Centre Party in 2023.
Varsinais-Suomi is one of the 13 electoral districts of the Parliament of Finland,the national legislature of Finland. The district was established as Turku Province South in 1907 when the Diet of Finland was replaced by the Parliament of Finland. It was renamed Varsinais-Suomi in 1997. It is conterminous with the region of Southwest Finland. The district currently elects 17 of the 200 members of the Parliament of Finland using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2023 parliamentary election it had 398,903 registered electors.
Esko is a Finnish masculine given name and surname.
YrjöErik Mikael Saarela was a Finnish wrestler who won Olympic gold and a world championship.
Esko Tapani Rechardt is a Finnish sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the Finn class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
The Finnish People's Delegation was the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic created by a group of members in the Social Democratic Party of Finland during the Finnish Civil War from January to May 1918.
Timo Laaninen was the party secretary of the Centre Party in Finland from June 12,2010 to 2016. Laaninen was the editor-in-chief of Suomenmaa party newspaper from January 2008 up to 2010. Before that he has been a political secretary in Esko Aho's cabinet to the minister of internal affairs,Mauri Pekkarinen,minister for foreign affairs Heikki Haavisto and prime minister Esko Aho. In Anneli Jäätteenmäki's cabinet he was a political secretary for prime minister Anneli Jäätteenmäki and later also for Matti Vanhanen in Matti Vanhanen's cabinet.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2018. The incumbent Sauli Niinistöreceived 63% of the vote and was re-elected for a second term,avoiding a second round. He received a plurality of the vote in every municipality and a majority in all but 13 municipalities.
Eeva Maija Kaarina Kuuskoski is a Finnish politician and physician. She was Member of the Parliament of Finland for Finland Proper from 1979 to 1995 and Minister of Social Affairs and Health from 1983 to 1987 and again from 1991 to 1992.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the Parliament of Finland.
Esko Almgren is a Finnish high school teacher and politician. He was the chairman of the Christian Democrats between 1982 and 1989. He served at the Finnish Parliament for three terms. He is the honorary chairman of the Christian Democrats.
