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.
Teuvo Hakkarainen is a Finnish politician and former member of the European Parliament. Before being elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 election,he had been a member of the Finnish Parliament since 2011.
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. Henriksson was recorded to have been the country's longest-serving Minister of Justice.
This article is about lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history in Finland.
Finland's overall corruption is relatively low,according to public opinion and global indexes and standards. The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International scored Finland at 87 on a scale from 0 to 100. When ranked by score,Finland ranked second among the 180 countries in the Index,where the country or countries ranked first are perceived to have the most honest public sector. Finland has ranked first,second or third every year since the current version of the Index was introduced in 2012. For comparison with 2023 worldwide scores,the best score was 90,the average score was 43,and the worst score was 11. For comparison with regional scores,the highest score among Western European and European Union countries was 90,the average score was 65 and the lowest score was 42.
Kristin "Krista" Siegfrids is a Finnish singer and television presenter. She represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with her entry "Marry Me". Siegfrids' debut album,named Ding Dong!,was released in May 2013. As a television presenter,she hosted Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu from 2016 to 2020.
A 2011 poll showed that 66% of Finnish respondents considered Finland to be a racist country but only 14% admitted to being racist themselves. Minority groups facing the most negative attitudes were Finnish Kale,Somalis,and ethnic groups mostly consisting of Muslims. Many Finnish people believe that Finns played little or no role in colonialism,a view known as "Finnish exceptionalism". However,Finns did settle while not an independent people the Sámi land and in the north and were involved in European colonial projects in Africa and North America. Finns at the time were subjects of Sweden and later the Russian Empire,which has been used to excuse their participation in colonialism.
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.
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.
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.
Li Sigrid Andersson is a Finnish politician who served as Minister of Education from 2019 to 2023. A former leader of the Left Alliance,she was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2024. She is also a city councillor of Turku and was chair of the party's youth wing,Left Youth.
The Jyväskylälibrary stabbing took place on January 30,2013,when members of the Finnish Resistance Movement,a branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement,had organized a demonstration in the city of Jyväskylä,Finland,and protesters assaulted three individuals as a group.
Katri Briitta Ilona Kulmuni is a Finnish politician who served as the 35th deputy prime minister of Finland and the leader of the Centre Party between 2019 and 2020. A member of the Centre Party,she was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2024. In the 2024 European Parliament election,she was elected to the European Parliament.
Sanna Mirella Marin is a Finnish former politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2023. She was re-elected as member of parliament in April 2023 but resigned to become a strategic adviser on political leaders' reform programmes in the Tony Blair Institute in September 2023.
Jukka Tapani Gustafsson is a Finnish politician. A Social Democrat,he has represented the electoral district of Pirkanmaa in the Parliament of Finland since 1987.
The 2017 Turku attack occurred on 18 August 2017 at around 16:02–16:05 (UTC+3) when 10 people were stabbed in central Turku,Southwest Finland. Two women were killed in the attack and eight people sustained injuries.
In December 2018,it transpired that adult men,all of whom had arrived in Finland as asylum seekers or refugees,were grooming,and raping and otherwise sexually abusing,girls under 15 years of age in Oulu,Finland. One victim ended up committing suicide. The Oulu Police Department warned young girls and parents,while emphasizing that "not all people with foreign backgrounds are dishonest or criminals".
The cabinet of Sanna Marin was the 76th government of Finland. It was formed following the collapse of the Rinne Cabinet and officially took office on 10 December 2019. The cabinet headed by Sanna Marin consists of a coalition formed by the Social Democratic Party,the Centre Party,the Green League,the Left Alliance,and the Swedish People's Party.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2024,with a second round held on 11 February. Voters elected a president of the Republic for a six-year term. Incumbent president Sauli Niinistöwas term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election,having served the maximum two terms,ensuring that the president elected would be the country's thirteenth.
On 2 April 2024,a shooting occurred at the Viertola school,Jokiranta site in Vantaa,Finland. The gunman,a 12-year-old student,fired a revolver at three students,all aged 12. One of the victims died and two were seriously injured.
