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This is a list of members of the 39th Parliament of Finland elected at the parliamentary election held on 2 April 2023, and subsequent changes during the 2023–2027 legislative term. Members [ edit ]
A vice president is a standalone office existing for deputizing or replacing a president. In other countries where the vice presidency is absent or vacant, a separate office or series of offices may instead be designated ex officio to act as head of state, for example the speaker of a legislature or a head of government .
On the other hand, the members may have any municipal positions of trust, and it is common for them to have a position in a municipal council. If MPs leave the parliament or die in office, they are replaced by candidates from the same list they were elected from in the previous election, in order of their electoral score (the D'Hondt quotient).
As that party was a member of the EPP, he sat in the European People's Party-European Democrats group. [17] During this time he became one of the most well-known members of the Parliament. [19] Stubb was a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and a vice-president of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
The president of the Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavallan presidentti; Swedish: republiken Finlands president) is the head of state of Finland. The incumbent president is Alexander Stubb, since 1 March 2024. He was elected president for the first time in 2024. [2]
Abandoning decades of military nonalignment in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Finland became NATO’s 31st member in April, much to the annoyance of President Vladimir Putin of Russia ...
Finland's partnership with NATO was historically based on its policy of military non-alignment, which changed following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. [14] On 1 March 2024, Alexander Stubb, a staunch supporter of NATO, was sworn in as Finland's new president. [15] As of May 2023, Finnish exports to Russia had dropped ...
Henna Maria Virkkunen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhenːɑ ˈmɑriɑ ˈʋirkːunen]; born 4 June 1972) is a Finnish politician who serves as Executive Vice-president of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy since 1 December 2024. [1] She has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014