Matti Vanhanen

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Matti Vanhanen (2020)

Matti Taneli Vanhanen  [ ˈmɑtːi ˈvɑnhɑnɛn ] (born November 4, 1955 in Jyväskylä ) is a Finnish politician and since June 9, 2020 Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the Marin cabinet . Please click to listen!Play

From 2003 to 2010 he was Prime Minister of Finland. From June 2019 to June 2020 he was President of the Finnish Parliament . Since 1975 he has been a member of the Finnish Center Party (Suomen Keskusta), of which he was deputy chairman in 2000 and chairman from October 2003 to June 2010. Vanhanen has a university degree in political science .

Life

Vanhanen (third from right) visited the GDR in 1988 .

Matti Vanhanen was born in 1955 as the second of three sons of political scientist Tatu Vanhanen and Anni Tiihonen. After graduating from high school in 1975 and completing military service , he studied political science at the University of Helsinki . In 1989 he completed his studies with a master's degree in social sciences.

From 1985 to 1991 he worked as a journalist for the local newspaper Kehäsanomat , from 1988 as its editor-in-chief.

In 1991 he was chairman of the Center Party's youth organization and was elected to the Finnish parliament for the first time. His topics were primarily ecological issues. For example, he spoke out against a fifth nuclear power plant in Finland, even though he was also on the board of the Finnish electricity company Fortum .

On April 17, 2003, he became Minister of Defense in Anneli Jäätteenmäki's cabinet . After Jäätteenmäki's resignation, he succeeded her on June 24, 2003 in the office of Prime Minister.

In the 2006 Finnish presidential election, Matti Vanhanen ran as a candidate for the Center Party. In the first ballot on January 15, 2006, he achieved a share of 18.6% of the vote and thus failed to make it into the runoff election.

With Finland taking over the presidency of the Council of the European Union on July 1, 2006, Vanhanen acted in his capacity as Finnish Prime Minister for six months as EU Council President.

After the 2007 general election , Vanhanen formed a government made up of his party, the National Collection Party, the Green Bund and the Swedish People's Party. On June 18, 2010, Vanhanen announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Finland. He had announced his withdrawal for health reasons in December 2009. On June 22, 2010, Mari Kiviniemi , who had already assumed the chairmanship of the Center Party, was elected to succeed Vanhanen .

In the 2018 presidential election , Vanhanen ran for the Center Party, but came off disappointingly with only 4.1 percent.

On June 7, 2019 he was elected by the Finnish Parliament as the new Speaker of the Parliament.

Private

Vanhanen was married to Merja Vanhanen from 1985 to 2005 and has a daughter (* 1991) and a son (* 1994) with her.

After the divorce, he had a nine-month relationship with Susan Ruusunen, who published intimate details in the tabloids and the book Pääministerin morsian ( Eng . The Prime Minister's Bride ) after the relationship ended . This didn't go over very well with the public. Some bookstores refused to include the book, and over 60,000 people signed an internet petition against its publication. Vanhanen sued Ruusunen in March 2007 for invasion of his privacy. In June 2010 Ruusunen was fined EUR 300 for invasion of privacy by the Supreme Court of Finland . Ruusunen went to the European Court of Human Rights , which denied a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and considered the amount of the fine to be reasonable.

Relationship with Sirkka-Liisa Mertala since March 2008, the separation was announced in July 2010.

Web links

Commons : Matti Vanhanen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung : Finland's Prime Minister submitted his resignation . June 18, 2010 (accessed November 20, 2013).
  2. ↑ https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/eduskunta-valitsee-uuden-puhemiehiston-puhemieheksi-nousemassa-matti-vanhanen/7439642?mtv_ref=twb_uutiset_uusimmat
  3. ^ Susanna Paasonen, Mari Pajala: Trashing The Prime Minister's Bride. Public Dismay and Intertextual Media . In: Critical Studies in Media Communication . tape 27 , no. 2 , June 2010, p. 174 f ., doi : 10.1080 / 15295030903550985 .
  4. ↑ Tarja Laine: SMS scandals: sex, media and politics in Finland . In: Media, Culture & Society . tape 32 , January 2010, p. 151 f ., doi : 10.1177 / 0163443709350379 .
  5. ↑ This is what everyone is talking about ... Finland. In: Der Tagesspiegel. March 16, 2008, accessed October 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ Dominic Ponsford: European Court says prime minister had right to privacy over affair with single mother pressgazette.co.uk, January 15, 2014, accessed October 26, 2018.
  7. ↑ Terho Vuorinen: Vanhanen ja Mertala taas yhdessä Ilta-Sanomat, April 28, 2008, accessed on October 26, 2018.
  8. ↑ IS: Vanhasen ja Mertalan kihlaus ohi Uusi Suomi, July 17, 2010, accessed on October 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Vanhanen, Matti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vanhanen, Matti Taneli (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish politician, Prime Minister (2003-2010)
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä