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Centre Party of Finland

The Centre Party or Suomen Keskusta is a centrist, liberal party in Finland. The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. The party was founded in 1908 and was then known as the Agrarian Party or Maalaisliitto. The current Prime Minister of Finland is Matti Vanhanen, who succeeded Anneli Jäätteenmäki.

Although the party has an ideological background in the 19th century fennoman movement, the party is rather the direct continuation of the Estate of the Peasantry in the pre-1906 dietss (see: the Riksdag of the Estates).

Table of contents

1 Prominent party leaders 2 See also 3 External Link

Prominent party leaders

• Lauri Kristian Relander, President 1925-1931
• Kyösti Kallio, Prime Minister four times 1922-1937, President 1937-1940
• Urho Kekkonen, Prime Minister twice 1950-1956, President 1956-1981
• Martti Miettunen, Prime Minister twice 1961-1977
• Johannes Virolainen, Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament
• Ahti Karjalainen, Prime Minister
• Paavo Väyrynen, Foreign Minister, Member of the European parliament, Party Chairman.
• Esko Aho, Prime Minister
• Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Prime Minister
• Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister

See also

List of political parties in Finland, Worldwide liberalism

External Link

Official web site

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