Jouko Kajanoja

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Jouko Kajanoja
Chairman of the Communist Party
In office
15 May 1982 June 1984
Personal details
Born (1942-12-23) 23 December 1942 (age 80)
Tammela, Finland
Political partyCommunist Party
ProfessionEconomist

Jouko Kajanoja (born 23 December 1942) is a Finnish economist and politician who served as minister of labour between 1981 and 1982. He was a member of the Communist Party which he headed from 1982 to 1984.

Biography

Kajanoja was born in Tammela, Finland, on 23 December 1942. [1] [2] He joined the Communist Party being part of the fraction which was the third group after the moderates and doctrinaire faction. [3] In March 1981 he was appointed minister of labour to the cabinet led by Mauno Koivisto. He also served in the same post in the next cabinet led by Kalevi Sorsa. [4]

On 15 May 1982 he became the chairman of the Communist Party. [5] [6] He was elected to the post as a result of the conflicts between the leaders of two major fractions of the party. [3] Kajanoja was supported by the Soviet Communist Party during his tenure which ended in June 1984 when Arvo Aalto won the election. [7] In the election Aalto won 183 votes against 163 votes in favor of Kajanoja. [7]

Later Kajanoja became secretary general of the Democratic Choice. [8] On 13 August 1987 Kajanoja was nominated by the Democratic Alternative as the candidate for the presidency. [8] He could obtain only 1.4% of the votes in the elections held in February 1988. [9] [10]

Kajanoja was married to Pirjo Turpeinen-Saari in the period between 1985 and 1996. [11]

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