Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician and who served as 30th Prime Minister of Finland, helped inhabitants of Karelia, opposed the use of alcohol and created Mandatory Swedish in Finnish basic schools.
Virolainen in 1975.
Grave of Johannes Virolainen and his wife Kyllikki Virolainen in Lohja, Finland.
The Centre Party, officially the Centre Party of Finland, is an agrarian-centrist political party in Finland.
Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum. It has been described as liberal, social-liberal, liberal-conservative, and conservative-liberal. The party’s leader is Annika Saarikko, who was elected in September 2020 to follow Katri Kulmuni, the former finance minister of Finland. As of December 2019, the party has been a coalition partner in the Marin Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Sanna Marin of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Santeri Alkio, the ideological father of the Centre Party
Finland's centrist president Kyösti Kallio on a Christmas 1939 visit to a military hospital
Urho Kekkonen, the president of Finland from 1956 to 1982 who became a symbolic figure of a statesman in Finland as testified by this graffiti representing Kekkonen in Pieksämäki
Olli Rehn, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro (2010–2014)
