Urpo Leppänen
Urpo Olavi Leppänen (born February 10, 1944 in Polvijärvi , North Karelia , † March 14, 2010 in Forssa ) was a Finnish politician .
biography
After attending school, he studied political science at the University of Helsinki , where he graduated with a master's degree . After working as a social scientist , he began his political career in the Finnish Agricultural Party ( Suomen maaseudun puolue (SMP) ) in the late 1960s . There he was first party secretary and later editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Suomen Uutiset during the 1970s . In 1979 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Finnish Parliament ( Eduskunta ) as a candidate of the SMP and represented the constituency of Kymmene .
In May 1983, Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa appointed him Minister of Labor ( Työvoimaministeri ) in his 4th cabinet. He held this office until the end of Sorsa's tenure in April 1987. During his tenure, the Lex Leppänen was passed , which stipulated that the local authorities should offer the unemployed a job after a certain period of time. However, as unemployment rose in the 1990s , this system was abolished because of the high cost.
After there was a difference of opinion between him and Pekka Vennamo , the chairman of the SMP, in 1989 , he resigned from the SMP and was an independent member of parliament until 1990 . He was then a member of the Liberal Party until 1991 .
In the parliamentary elections of 2007 Leppänen ran unsuccessfully in the constituency of North Karelia for the right-wing populist grassroots Finns , a successor party to the SMP. During the last years of his life he was a member of the Forssa town council.
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| SURNAME | Leppänen, Urpo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leppänen, Urpo Olavi (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish politician, member of the Reichstag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Polvijärvi , North Karelia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 2010 |
| Place of death | Forssa |