The Green League,shortened to the Greens,is a green political party in Finland.
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 7 to 36 members using the proportional D'Hondt method. In addition,there is one member from Åland.
Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010. He was also Chairman of the Centre Party in 2006. In his earlier career,he was a journalist. Vanhanen is the son of professor Tatu Vanhanen and Anni Tiihonen.
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.
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.
Maria Edith Guzenina is a Finnish politician who became a household name in Finland after working as the first Finnish VJ for MTV Europe from 1993 until 1997. Her career in journalism started in the late 1980s,when only at the age of 17 and still a student in high school she became a co-host of a famous Finnish television personality Timo T. A. Mikkonen in his daily magazine-type program. Since then she has hosted several television programs and shows for the Finnish National Broadcasting Company,hosted several radio talk shows and has written articles and columns for numerous Finnish newspapers and magazines.
Pekka Olavi Haavisto is a Finnish politician of the Green League who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023.
Hanna Katariina Mäntylä is a Finnish politician and the former Minister of Social Affairs and Health. She represented the Finns Party until June 2017 and was the second deputy chairwoman of the party. She was elected to the Parliament from Lapland in 2011. She maintained her seat in the 2015 parliamentary election. She was appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Health in May 2015.
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. The leader of the Left Alliance,she has been a Member of Parliament since 2015. She is also the city councilor of Turku and was the chair of the party's youth wing,Left Youth.
Touko Juhani Aalto is a Finnish politician. He was chairman of the Green League from 2017 to 2018. He represented the electoral district of Central Finland in the Parliament of Finland 2015–2019.
Krista Johanna Mikkonen is a Finnish politician for the Green League,member of parliament,and Finland's Minister of the Interior. She lives in Joensuu,but spent her childhood in Koria. She was first elected to the Finnish Parliament in the 2015 parliamentary election for the Savo-Karelia constituency. Between 2016 and 2019,Mikkonen was the chairperson of the Green League parliamentary group. Mikkonen graduated with a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Joensuu in North Karelia in 2003.
Maria Karoliina Ohisalo is a Finnish politician and researcher who served as Minister of the Interior between 2019 and 2021. The former chairman of the Green League,she has been a Member of Parliament since 2019.
Iiris Suomela is a Finnish politician formerly serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Green League at the Pirkanmaa constituency. She was a member of the Grand Committee and the Finance Committee. She has also formerly been vice chairperson for Tampere city council,and a Member of the Board of Directors of University of Tampere.
Lassi Vilhelm Junnila is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland,representing the constituency of Finland Proper. He is a member of the Finns Party. He is currently a member in three committees:the Constitutional Law Committee,the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Intelligence Oversight Committee. He is also a member in the Finnish delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and Finns Party parliamentary group´s vice chairperson.
Harri Matti Jaskari is a Finnish politician. He has served as a member of the National Coalition Party's Parliament from 2007 to 2019 in the Pirkanmaa constituency and as a member of Tampere City Council since 2000. After leaving the Parliament,Jaskari worked as an entrepreneur until he was appointed Director of Business Policy of the Finnish Entrepreneurs' Association in June 2021.
Sampsa Kalle Henrikki Kataja is a Finnish politician,Member of Parliament and lawyer. Kataja has served in the Pori City Council from 1997 to 2017 and from 2021 to 2025,and as a member of the National Assembly for the Coalition Party of Finland from 2007 to 2015.
Annika Anita Lapintie is a Finnish Left Alliance Member of Parliament (1995–2019) and Member of Turku City Council (1989–2012). Lapintie was the chairman of the Left Alliance parliamentary group in Finland from 2006 to 2015. He chaired the Constitutional Affairs Committee from 2015 to 2019.
Eemeli Peltonen is a Finnish politician and Member of Parliament.
