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.
The Green League,shortened to the Greens,is a green political party in Finland. Ideologically,the Green League is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum. It is a reformist party and it is supportive of feminism,animal rights and green liberal ideas.
Taisto Kalevi Sorsa was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland three times:1972–1975,1977–1979 and 1982–1987. At the time of his death he still held the record for most days of incumbency as prime minister. He was also a long-time leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
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 prime minister of Finland is the leader of the Finnish Government. The prime minister and their cabinet exercise executive authority in the state. The prime minister is formally ranked third in the protocol after the president of Finland and the speaker of the Parliament but is in practice the most powerful officeholder. Finland's first prime minister,Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,was appointed on 27 November 1917,just a few days before the country declared its independence.
There are four types of elections in Finland. Each Finnish citizen at least 18 years of age has the right to vote in each of the elections,which decide the following:the president,the parliament,the MEPs,and the municipal and city councils.
Sini Maaria Suvi-Anne Siimes is a former chair of the Finnish Left Alliance. She quit the party in 2006 because she did not want to support the party's former taistoists.
Jari Pekka Olavi Vilén is a Finnish diplomat and a politician. Vilén served in the Finnish Parliament,representing the National Coalition Party and the district of Lapland from 1999 to 2007.
Eero Olavi Heinäluoma is a Finnish politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2019. A former chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland,he was replaced in the party's leadership by Jutta Urpilainen in June 2008. He was Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2011–2015.
Pekka Olavi Haavisto is a Finnish politician of the Green League who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023.
Nikolai Eivindssøn Astrup is a Norwegian politician representing the Conservative Party. He served as Minister of Local Government from 2020 to 2021. Previously he served as the Minister of International Development from 2018 to 2019 in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's cabinet,being the first since Heikki Holmås from 2012 to 2013. In 2019,he also became the first Minister of Digitalisation after the Christian Democratic Party joined the Cabinet,a post he served in until 2020.
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.
The Social Democratic Party of Finland is a social democratic political party in Finland. It is the third largest party in the Parliament of Finland with 43 seats. Founded in 1899 as the Workers' Party of Finland,the SDP is Finland's oldest active political party and has a close relationship with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions. It is also a member of the Party of European Socialists,Progressive Alliance,Socialist International and SAMAK.
Antti Juhani Rinne is a Finnish politician who served as speaker of the Parliament of Finland from April to June 2019 and Prime Minister of Finland from June to December 2019. He led the Social Democratic Party from 2014 until 2020. In August 2023,he was hired as the General Secretary of SAMAK for a three-year term.
Sinikka Marjatta Luja-Penttilä was a Finnish politician and writer. She represented Uusimaa in the Parliament of Finland from 1966 to 1983 as a member of the Social Democratic Party,and was the minister of social affairs and health from 1979 to 1982.
Maija Riitta Perho is a Finnish politician. She represented Varsinais-Suomi in the Parliament of Finland from 1991 to 2007 as a member of the National Coalition Party. From 1999 to 2003,she was Finland's minister of social affairs and health in the cabinet of Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen.
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.
Kari Häkämies is a Finnish lawyer and politician being a member of the National Coalition Party. He served as the justice minister and interior minister and was elected to the Finnish Parliament. He is also the author of several political thriller novels first of which was published in 2010.
Tuula Linnainmaa is a retired Finnish politician representing the National Coalition Party. She served as a Member of Parliament for the Uusimaa constituency in 1987–1997,and as the transport minister in the first Lipponen cabinet in 1995–1997. In 1997,she was appointed the inaugural Governor of the newly-formed Southern Finland Province,serving there until 2003. She was also active for many years in local politics,as a member of the Espoo City Council.
