Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010. He was also Chairman of the Centre Party in 2006. In his earlier career, he was a journalist. Vanhanen is the son of professor Tatu Vanhanen and Anni Tiihonen.
Vanhanen in 2022
Vanhanen (third from right) visited the GDR in 1988.
Vanhanen after Finnish 2006 presidential elections in G8 Summit in Strelna, Russia. Left to right: Romano Prodi, Angela Merkel, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Junichiro Koizumi, Stephen Harper, Matti Vanhanen and José Manuel Barroso.
Vanhanen's second cabinet.
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)