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Mari Kiviniemi named Finland's new interim Prime Minister

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

As expected, Finland's Parliament has today elected Mari Kiviniemi as the country's new interim Prime Minister.

A total of 115 of Finland's 200 parliamentary members voted in favour of Mrs Kiviniemi's appointment, while 56 including the left-leaning opposition voted against.

Mrs Kiviniemi, who took over as head of the liberal Keskusta Party two weeks ago, is to be officially sworn in at a ceremony with Tarja Halonen, the President of Finland, later this afternoon.

She is replacing Matti Vanhanen, who resigned on Friday after seven years as Prime Minister, and makes history as for the first time in the country’s long history the top two positions of state are held by women.

Posted by Andrew at 13:50.

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Andrew is a 25-year old British passport holder, European citizen, and a former stagiaire at the European Parliament.

Hailing from the truly beautiful South West region of the UK, he finds himself represented in Europe by three eurosceptic Tory MEPs, two UKIPs, and one Liberal.

While the EU in its current form is far from perfect, he is nonetheless firmly of the belief that the UK's prosperity and place in the world is best served as a member state and not as an isolated bystander.

This blog seeks to document the good work that our region's MEPs do for us in Brussels. As such, predictably, it rarely features UKIP.