Paavo Tapio Lipponen is a Finnish politician and former reporter. He was prime minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003,and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005. He also served as speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 to 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6.7% of the votes,making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party had ever received in Finnish presidential elections at the time. Lipponen is currently the oldest living former prime minister of Finland.
Western Finland was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2009. It bordered the provinces of Oulu,Eastern Finland and Southern Finland. It also bordered the Gulf of Bothnia towards Åland. Tampere was the largest city of the province.
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 National Coalition Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Finland.
Ville Heimo Antero Itälä is the Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and a former a Finnish politician. He was elected member of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) from the district of Southwest Finland in 1995. Itäläserved as the Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen from September 2000 to April 2003. He was elected chairman of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) in 2001. Following his resignation as party leader in 2004,he was succeeded by Jyrki Katainen. Itäläwas a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 29 February 2012. He was a member of the European Court of Auditors from 2012 until February 2018. Since August 2018 he is the Director-General of OLAF.
Sauli VäinämöNiinistö is a Finnish politician who has served as the 12th president of Finland since March 2012.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) rights in Finland are among the most advanced in Europe. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity have been legal in Finland since 1971 with "promotion" thereof decriminalized and the age of consent equalized in 1999. Homosexuality was declassified as an illness in 1981. Discrimination based on sexual orientation in areas such as employment,the provision of goods and services,etc.,was criminalized in 1995 and discrimination based on gender identity in 2005.
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 and Pori 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.
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.
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%.
Presidential elections were held in Finland in January and February 2012. The first round took place on 22 January 2012 with advance voting between 11 and 17 January. Since no candidate received a majority of the vote,a second round was held on 5 February,with advance voting between 25 and 31 January. Sauli Niinistöwas elected the President of Finland for a term from 1 March 2012 until 1 March 2018.
Movement Now is an economically liberal political party in Finland.
Sofia Marjanna Virta is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Green League at the Varsinais-Suomi constituency since 2019 and the current leader of the Green League since 10 June 2023.
Events in the year 2021 in Finland.
Margit Marjatta Margareetta Eskman was a Finnish politician. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1966 to 1975,representing Turku Province North as a member of the Social Democratic Party. She was the Second Minister of Finance from February to May 1972,the first woman to hold that position. Eskman later served as the director-general of Finland's national social security agency and the National Board of Social Welfare.
Irma Hellin Toivanen was a Finnish politician and teacher. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1970 to 1979,representing Turku Province South as a member of the Liberal People's Party. From 1975 to 1976,she was Finland's Minister of Social Affairs and Health,appointed by then-Prime Minister Martti Miettunen.
Maija-Liisa Rask is a Finnish retired politician and nurse. She represented Lapland in the Parliament of Finland as a member of the Social Democratic Party from 1991 to 2007. As minister of education from 1999 to 2003,she was one of the 29 signers of the Bologna declaration.
Events in the year 2022 in Finland.
Katri Kaarlonen was a Finnish politician,who served as a Member of Parliament for the Turku Province (south) constituency,representing the Centre Party.
