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List of prime ministers of Finland

List of prime ministers of Finland

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This is a list of prime ministers of Finland since the establishment of that office in 1917.

History

In 1918, the Finnish Senate was transformed into the Finnish Government, and the position of vice-chairman of the economic division of the Senate was transformed into the position of prime minister. Kesäranta (in Swedish Villa Bjälbo), located in the Meilahti neighborhood of Helsinki, has been the official residence of the prime minister of Finland since 1919.

Since its independence (declared on 6 December 1917), Finland has had 75 cabinets,[1] including the current one, the longest lasting being the cabinet of Prime Minister Juha Sipilä, lasting 1,469 days.[2]

Before the 1980s, cabinets tended to be short lived; the president was the most important political figure, and he had the right to form a new cabinet whenever he wanted. From the 1980s onwards, cabinets have tended to serve full terms (although the prime minister changed midterm in a few cases, most of the other cabinet members have remained nearly unchanged) and the prime minister has become more powerful a figure than the president. Under the current constitution, the prime minister is chosen by the parliament and only formally appointed by the president.

List of prime ministers

Finnish cabinets and prime ministers are numbered sequentially. A prime minister can serve as the head of multiple cabinets. For example, Matti Vanhanen is both the 39th and the 40th prime minister.[3]

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Timeline

Petteri OrpoSanna MarinAntti RinneJuha SipiläAlexander StubbJyrki KatainenMari KiviniemiMatti VanhanenAnneli JäätteenmäkiPaavo LipponenEsko AhoHarri HolkeriEino UusitaloKeijo LiinamaaKalevi SorsaTeuvo AuraMauno KoivistoRafael PaasioJohannes VirolainenReino Ragnar LehtoAhti KarjalainenMartti MiettunenEemil LuukkaReino KuuskoskiRainer von FieandtV. J. SukselainenRalf TörngrenSakari TuomiojaUrho KekkonenKarl-August FagerholmMauno PekkalaCarl EnckellUrho CastrénAntti HackzellEdwin LinkomiesJohan Wilhelm RangellRudolf WaldenRisto RytiRudolf HolstiToivo Mikael KivimäkiOskari MantereJuho SunilaVäinö TannerAntti TulenheimoKyösti KallioAimo CajanderRafael ErichJuho VennolaKaarlo CastrénLauri IngmanJuho Kusti PaasikiviPehr Evind Svinhufvud

See also


References

  1. Finnish Council of State. "The Cabinet in Office". Finnish Council of State. Archived from the original on November 13, 2010. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
  2. "Juha Sipilän hallituksesta tulee kaikkien aikojen pitkäikäisin" (in Finnish). Ilta-Sanomat. 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  3. "Governments in chronological order". Finnish government (Valtioneuvosto). Retrieved 27 March 2017.

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