Tarja Halonen
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Tarja Kaarina Halonen is a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position in Finland, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to promine
Halonen in 2011
5-year-old Tarja Halonen in 1948
Tarja Halonen in 1975, working Finnish Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.
Halonen in March 2005
Sauli Niinistö
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Sauli Väinämö Niinistö is a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 2012 to 2024.
Tarja Halonen
…with her approval ratings reaching a peak of 88 percent in December 2003. She was re-elected in 2006, defeating National Coalition Party candidate Sauli Niinistö in the second round by 51% to 48%. Ineligible to run in the 2012 presidential elections because of term limits, Halonen left office on 1 March 2012 and…
Niinistö in 2022
Niinistö in an interview in 1985
Niinistö in the 2006 Finnish presidential election
Sauli Niinistö leaving Parliament after receiving his presidency with outgoing President Tarja Halonen in March 2012