The country of a thousand lakes has always attracted tourists with incredibly beautiful nature, ice hotels, saunas and unsurpassed fish dishes. Modern travelers can talk about which countries they visited, but almost no one can answer the names of the heads of these states. Do you, for example, know who rules this country now?
Presidents of Finland (in order)
1. Stolberg Kaarlo Juho was born in 1865 in the family of a pastor. He was elected president in 1919, where he was supported by the Agrarian League and the National Progressive Party. Withdrew his re-election in 1925. And in 1946, the first president of Finland took the post of adviser to the 7th head of state.
2. Relander Lauri Christian - the second President of Finland, was the head of state for exactly 6 years from 1925 to 1931. Among the people he was nicknamed the traveling Lauri, as he often visited foreign countries. He opposed the "dry law". After the expiration of the presidential term until his death, he worked as a director of an insurance company. Died of a heart attack.
3. Svinhufvud Per Evind (1931–1937) was trusted by his population. He spoke not only against the Nazis, but also led an anti-communist policy. insisted onmeeting with Hitler and Mussolini, but all attempts were unsuccessful.
4th President of Finland Kallio Kyösti, according to the Finns, was a weak head of state. They believed that his lack of understanding in matters of foreign policy contributed to drawing the country into the battlefield of the Patriotic War. But there are those who consider him a respected president, since he was an adherent of parliamentarism.
5. Ryuti Risto is the only president of Finland, during whose reign 2 wars happened at once. By signing a secret agreement, he guaranteed the supply of weapons to Nazi Germany, and in 1945 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison as a war criminal.
6. Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim was head of state from 1944 to 1946. He was fluent in 6 languages, including Russian. Until his last breath, there was an autographed photograph of Nicholas II on the desktop. In 2009, a biopic was made about Mannerheim.
7. Paasikivi Juho Kusti was a lawyer by training. After he headed the presidency, he directed his activities to the normalization of foreign policy, in particular with the USSR.
8. Urho Kekkonen has been the President of Finland since 1956, just like the previous head of state, he tried to maintain the country's neutrality in politics and establish cooperation with the Soviet Union.
9. Mauno Koivisto gave Finland an economic downturn, but fortunately he was able to bring the country out of the crisis. In 2011, he was recognized as the oldest head of state among all former presidents.
10. Martti Ahtisaari (1994–2000)received the title of honorary citizen of the Republic of Namibia. Despite this, the new president of the state in 2001 sharply criticized his actions in relation to this African country. In 2008, he received the Nobel Prize.
11. Halonen Tarja served as president 2 times, after which she became the chairman of the B altic Sea Action Group fund.
12. Sauli Niinistö is the current President of Finland (since March 1, 2012). He studies Russian, because, in his opinion, knowing it is a sign of politeness towards a neighboring country.
Stolberg Kaarlo Juho
According to the Constitutional Act, the office of President was established in 1919, but was not approved until 1919.
Finland's first president, Stolberg Kaarlo Juho, has been elected by Parliament. He directed his political activity to the formation of a bourgeois republic. He also became the initiator of land reform, being the head of state, he pardoned many people participating in the revolutionary movement.
His first wife died in 1917, 3 years later he married Esther Hallström. The third wife was Irena Vyalberg, six children were born in this family.
Sauli Niinistö
The current president of Finland was elected in 2012, before that he was the head of the Finnish Football Union. Having headed the post, he began to be active in foreign policy. First of all, he paid visits to Russia, Sweden and Estonia. This was followed by a speech at the UN, where he nominated his country for membership in the Security Council.
The first wife died in a car accident in 1995, leaving him with his two sons Nauti and Matthias. With the latter in 2004, Sauli rested in Thailand, where during the tsunami they were able to survive by climbing a pole. Since 2009, his wife has been the poetess Yenny Haukio.
Tarja Halonen
Former Finnish President Tarja Halonen is the first woman to lead this post. At the first stage of the elections, she received 40% of the votes, at the second - 51.6%. In her youth she was a fan of Che Guevara. After a year of her presidency, the Finnish people were satisfied with her activities.
With their first husband, Karri Pekonnenu, they have a common daughter, Anna. She legalized her second marriage only in 2006 with Pentti Arajärvi after 15 years of living together.
Tarja is fond of painting, graphics and loves cats.
Estimated content
According to official data, the salary of the President of Finland is 160 thousand euros, that is, 18 euros are charged for each hour. 200,000 euros are allocated annually for the organization of business events. It was also estimated that in 2012 about 3 million euros were spent on visits to other countries and within Finland. In the same year, President Sauli Niinistö was given an armored Mercedes car.
