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.
Sauli VäinämöNiinistö is a Finnish politician who has served as the 12th president of Finland since March 2012.
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015. He rose to politics as a researcher specialized in the affairs of the European Union and was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 as a member of the National Coalition Party. In 2008,Stubb was appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs following a scandal surrounding his predecessor,Ilkka Kanerva. In 2011 Stubb stood for election to the Finnish Parliament for the first time and was elected MP with the second highest vote count in the election,which led to Stubb becoming the Minister for Europe and Foreign Trade in Jyrki Katainen's cabinet.
Jussi Kristian Halla-aho is a Finnish politician,currently serving as the Speaker of the Parliament of Finland since 2023. Halla-aho has served as a member of the Parliament of Finland from 2011 to 2014 and again since 2019,and as the leader of the Finns Party from 10 June 2017 to 14 August 2021. Previously,between 2014 and 2019,he was a member of the European Parliament,where he was part of the Identity and Democracy group.
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 colonial subjects of Sweden and had no choice in this regard.
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.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2018. The incumbent Sauli Niinistöreceived 63% of the vote and was elected for a second term,avoiding a second round. He received a plurality of the vote in every municipality and a majority in all but 13 municipalities.
Elina Maria Valtonen is a Finnish politician who has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Petteri Orpo since 2023. A member of the National Coalition Party (NCP),she has represented the constituency of Uusimaa in the Parliament of Finland since 2014. In the 2021 muicipal election she collected the second-highest number of votes in Helsinki and was elected a member of its city council.
The National Coalition Party leadership election,2016 was held in Lappeenranta,Finland on 11 June 2016,to elect the chair of the National Coalition Party. In the election,Alexander Stubb,the incumbent party chair and Minister of Finance,was defeated by Petteri Orpo,the Minister of the Interior. Elina Lepomäki,a Member of the Parliament,finished third. After the leadership election,Orpo took Stubb's post as the Minister of Finance.
The 2017 Finns Party leadership election was held in Jyväskylä,Finland,on June 10,2017,to elect the new chair of the Finns Party. All members of the party who had paid their subscription were allowed to vote in the election.
The 2017 Finnish government crisis followed the Finns Party leadership election held on 10 June 2017. Prime Minister Juha Sipiläand Minister of Finance Petteri Orpo announced on 12 June that they would no longer cooperate in a coalition government with the Finns Party after Jussi Halla-aho was elected party chairman. The crisis resolved on 13 June when twenty MPs defected from the Finns Party's parliamentary group,forming what would eventually become The Finnish Reform Movement party. Sipilä's government retained a majority in Finland's parliament as The Finnish Reform Movement continued as a member of the coalition.
The Finnish Reform Movement,previously known as Blue Reform,was a Finnish conservative political party.
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the Parliament of Finland.
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.
Riikka Katriina Purra is a Finnish politician,serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Finland,and Finance Minister,since 2023. She is also a member of the Parliament of Finland for the Finns Party for the Uusimaa constituency. In August 2021 she was elected the new leader of the party,after Jussi Halla-aho.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2024,with a second round to be held on 11 February. Voters will elect a President of the Republic for a six-year term. Incumbent President Sauli Niinistöis term-limited and cannot run for re-election,having served the maximum two terms,ensuring the president elected will be the country's thirteenth.
Events in the year 2023 in Finland.
The Orpo Cabinet is the 77th government of Finland. It was formed following the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election and succeeds the Marin Cabinet led by the Social Democrats and was formally appointed by President Sauli Niinistöon 20 June 2023. The cabinet is headed by Petteri Orpo and is a coalition between the National Coalition Party,Finns Party,the Swedish People's Party,and the Christian Democrats.
