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Tuula Haatainen
Finnish politician
Tuula Irmeli Haatainen (born 11 February 1960) is a Finnish politician and a member of the Finnish Parliament, with the Social Democratic Party. She was the Minister of Education 2003–2005 and the Minister of Social Affairs and Health 2005–2007.[1]
In 2007 Haatainen was chosen as the Deputy Mayor of Helsinki and she left the parliament.[2] She returned to the parliament following the 2015 elections, in which she received 6,662 personal votes.[3]
On 2 September 2017, Haatainen was nominated as the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in 2018 presidential election.[4] In the election, Haatainen placed sixth with 3.3 percent of the votes, while the incumbent president Sauli Niinistö went on to secure his second term with a majority of votes.[5]
After the presidential election, on 5 February 2018, Haatainen was elected as the Second Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.[6] She served in the position until the collapse of Rinne Cabinet in December 2019, after which she joined the subsequent Marin Cabinet as Minister of Employment.[7] She is a trained nurse and has practised in her home region of Northern Savonia, and in Åland.[8]
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