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Markku Matti Laukkanen (born 20 December 1950 in Valkeala) is a Finnish TV journalist and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1991 to 1995 and again from 1999 to 2011, representing the Centre Party. He is a graduate of the University of Tampere. [1]
The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906. In accordance with the Constitution of Finland, sovereignty belongs to the people, and that power is vested in the Parliament. The Parliament consists of 200 members, 199 of whom are elected every four years from 13 multi-member districts electing 6 to 37 members using the proportional D'Hondt method. In addition, there is one member from Åland.
Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is a Finnish politician and has previously been a member of the Finnish Parliament. From 2000 to 2007 and 2011 to 2015, he served as the minister for foreign affairs. He was president of the Nordic Council in 2008.
Finnicization is the changing of one's personal names from other languages into Finnish. During the era of National Romanticism in Finland, many people, especially Fennomans, finnicized their previously Swedish family names.
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. Itälä served 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. Itälä was 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.
Iiro Viinanen is a Finnish politician. Viinanen graduated as an engineer from a Tampere Institute in 1967 and as a Master of Science (Technology) from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1974. He was a Member of the Parliament of Finland (Eduskunta) from 1983 to 1996. He was a member of the National Coalition Party. He served as the Finland’s Minister of Finance from 1991 to 1996.
Reijo Mauri Matias Pekkarinen is a Finnish politician. He most recently served as a Member of European Parliament for Finland between 2019 and 2024. He is the Centre Party of Finland deputy and secretary, having served in various cabinet position in the Finnish government, including as Minister of Economic Affairs, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of the Interior, as well as a member of parliament. He is known by the nickname "The Parliament Terrier".
August Hjelt was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Senate of Finland. He belonged to the conservative Finnish Party. He was a member of the Diet of Finland in 1897 and from 1905 to 1906 and of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1908 and again from 1910 to 1911. He was the younger brother of Edvard Hjelt.
Kimmo Kalevi Tiilikainen is a Finnish politician from the Centre Party. He is an organic farmer and forester. Tiilikainen served as the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment from 2015 to 2019. He is also a former Minister of the Environment of Finland from 2007 to 2008.
Juho Seppo Antero Eerola is a Finnish politician of the Finns Party. He was elected to the Finnish Parliament in the 2011 election. He is also a member of the city council of Kotka. In the True Finns' party conference of 2011 Eerola was elected as the party's second vice-chairman, and in the conference of 2013 he was elected as the third vice-chairman. Eerola is a former member of the nationalist organisation Suomen Sisu: he resigned his membership in 2012 when he felt that people outside the party were using the issue as a wedge against him and the party.
Petter (Pekka) Wilhelm Heikkinen was a Finnish farmer and politician. He served as Minister of Trade and Industry from 17 December 1927 to 22 December 1928 and from 16 August 1929 to 4 July 1930, as Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 21 March 1931 to 14 December 1932 and as Minister of Agriculture from 7 October 1936 to 15 August 1940. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1919 to 1922 and from 1924 to 1940, representing the Agrarian League. He served as the chairman of the Agrarian League from 1919 to 1940 and as Governor of Kuopio Province from 1940 to 1950.
Arvi Einar Malmivaara was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1935 to 1939, representing the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL). He was also active in the Lapua Movement.
Eino Aarne Tuomivaara was a Finnish agronomist and politician. He served as Minister of Social Affairs from 4 July 1930 to 21 March 1931. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Agrarian League from 1924 to 1930 and the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) from 1933 to 1939 and again from 1941 to 1944 and finally, after the IKL was banned on 23 September 1944, as an Independent from 1944 to 1945.
Kustaa Aadolf Jussila was a Finnish politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1936 to 1939, representing the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL). He was the elder brother of Eetu Jussila.
Leonard Typpö was a Finnish farmer and lay preacher, born in Rautio. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1911 until his death in 1922, representing the Finnish Party from 1911 to 1918 and the National Coalition Party from 1918 to 1922.
Karl (Kaarlo) Fredrik Salovaara was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1936 to 1939, representing the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL).
Yrjö Efraim Kivenoja was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician. At first a member of the National Coalition Party, he later joined the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL), which he represented in the Parliament of Finland from 1933 to 1936.
Iisakki Elias Nikkola was a Finnish politician, born in Kurikka. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland as a representative of the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) from 1933 to 1944, as an Independent from 1944 to 1945 and as a representative of the National Coalition Party from 1951 to 1952.
Otto Piisinen was a Finnish journalist and politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of Finland from 1913 to 1917, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). He belonged to the right wing of the party and, unlike most members of his party, sided with the Whites during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Moving even further to the right, he was later active in the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL).
Unto Uuno Mikael Varjonen was a Finnish politician who belonged to the right wing of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). He served as Minister without portfolio from 29 July to 19 August 1949 and as Deputy Minister of Finance from 19 August 1949 to 17 March 1950. He was a Member of the Parliament of Finland from 1948 to 1951.
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