Esko Tapani Aho is a Finnish politician who was prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995.
The National Coalition Party is a liberal-conservative 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 on the political spectrum. It has been described as liberal,social-liberal,liberal-conservative,and conservative-liberal. The party’s leader is Annika Saarikko,who was elected in September 2020 to follow Katri Kulmuni,the former finance minister of Finland. As of December 2019,the party has been a coalition partner in the Marin Cabinet,led by Prime Minister Sanna Marin of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The Finns Party,formerly known as the True Finns,is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party. The party is currently a participant in the Government of Petteri Orpo,holding seven ministerial portfolios. The party achieved its electoral breakthrough in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election,when it won 19.1% of votes,becoming the third largest party in the Finnish Parliament. In the 2015 election the party got 17.7% of the votes,making it the parliament's second-largest political party. The party was in opposition for the first 20 years of its existence. In 2015,it joined the coalition government formed by Prime Minister Juha Sipilä. Following a 2017 split,over half of the party's MPs left the parliamentary group and were subsequently expelled from their party membership. This defector group,Blue Reform,continued to support the government coalition,while the Finns Party went into opposition. The party,having been reduced to 17 seats after the split,increased its representation to 39 seats in the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election,while Blue Reform failed to win any seats. During the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election,the Finns Party finished in second place and recorded their strongest result,46 seats,since the party's founding.
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician who has been 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.
Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva was a Finnish politician and a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Lokalahti,now a part of Uusikaupunki in Southwest Finland. He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. Kanerva was a member of the National Coalition Party.
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.
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.
Anna-Maja Kristina Henriksson is a Swedish-speaking Finnish politician. She has served as Finland's Minister of Justice,in Jyrki Katainen's cabinet and Alexander Stubb's cabinet from 2011 to 2015,Antti Rinne's cabinet from June to December 2019 and in Sanna Marin's cabinet from December 2019 to June 2023. Currently,Henriksson is the country's longest-serving Minister of Justice.
Juha Petri Sipilä is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2015 to 2019. A relative newcomer to politics,he has a successful background in business. He was the leader of the Centre Party from 2012 to 2019. After leading the Centre party to victory in the 2015 general election,Sipiläformed a centre-right coalition and was appointed Prime Minister by the Finnish Parliament on 29 May 2015. On 8 March 2019,Sipilästated his intention to resign as Prime Minister,citing difficulties in reforming Finland's health care system. President Sauli Niinistöasked him to continue with a caretaker government until a new government coalition was appointed on 6 June 2019 and was ultimately succeeded by Antti Rinne.
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.
The Stubb Cabinet was the 73rd Government of Finland,which stepped into office on 24 June 2014. It succeeded Jyrki Katainen's cabinet. The cabinet's prime minister was Alexander Stubb.
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.
The cabinet of Juha Sipilä was the 74th government of Finland,from 2015 to 2019. It was formed following the parliamentary election of 2015 and formally appointed by President Sauli Niinistöon 29 May 2015. From June 2017,the cabinet consisted of a coalition formed by the Centre Party,Blue Reform and the National Coalition Party. The cabinet's Prime Minister was Juha Sipilä.
Elina Maria Valtonen is a Finnish politician who has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Petteri Orpo since 2023. A member of the National Coalition Party (NCP),she has represented the constituency of Uusimaa in the Parliament of Finland since 2014. In the 2021 municipal election she collected the second-highest number of votes in Helsinki and was elected a member of its city council.
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