If Li Andersson goes to Brussels, a fierce NATO opponent will enter the parliament – They are getting a new company – 2024-03-07 06:30:26

A large number of sitting MPs are running for the European Parliament in the European elections held at the beginning of June.

Among other things, they have already applied for the position Hello Marine (sd) outgoing chairman of the left-wing coalition that was part of the five Li AnderssonRKP’s equally outgoing chairman Anna-Maja Henriksson and left the chairmanship of the Green Party last summer Maria Ohisalo.

If the trio is elected to the EU Parliament, they will take their place in the parliament Johannes Yrttiaho (vas), Christoffer Ingo (r) yes Alviina Alametsä (green).

Yrittiaho fell out of parliament in the spring 2023 elections after serving in the position for one term. The 44-year-old Yrttiaho has strongly criticized the United States, NATO and Finland’s fighter acquisitions.

Ingo received 4,800 votes in the Vaasa electoral district, which is much more than the last candidates of PS, SDP and the coalition. The 30-year-old Ingo is the chairman of the Mustasaari council and he has also served as Henriksson’s parliamentary assistant.

Alametsä, who sits on the Helsinki City Council, entered the EU Parliament in the middle of the term in 2020, when Great Britain left the European Union. The 31-year-old Alametsä is not aiming for another season, but has said that he is waiting for Ohisalo’s place.

The Greens currently have three MPs: Alviina Alametsä, Heidi Hautala and Ville Niinistö. Of them, only Niinistö is nominated.

Basic Finns change their meppi

The top candidates of Basic Finns in the European elections in early June are the vice-presidents of the party Mauri Peltokangas and Sebastian Tynkkynenwho were the voice rakes of their constituencies in the parliamentary elections in Vaasa and Oulu.

If the two are elected to the EU Parliament, they will take their place in the parliament Jukka Mäkynen and Merja Rasinkangas.

Mäkynen fell out of parliament in the spring 2023 elections after serving in the position for one term. 62-year-old Mäkynen is a construction worker by profession and he serves as a member of the Vaasa City Council.

61-year-old Rasinkangas received 4,116 votes in the spring 2023 elections. Rasinkangas is a police officer by profession and he serves as a member of the Oulu city council.

Basic Finns currently have two mepps: Teuvo Hakkarainen and Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner. It is known that neither of them is a candidate in the European elections held at the beginning of June.

Among the sitting MPs, there is also a former central minister Mika Lintilä aspires to the EU Parliament. If Lintilä is elected MEP, he will be replaced as a member of parliament by someone who narrowly failed in the spring 2023 elections Pass to Kivisaari (center).

There are currently two mepps in the center. About them Elsi Katainen is a candidate in the elections, but Mauri Pekkarinen no.

In the convention, crowded to Brussels

Of the three sitting members of the coalition Sirpa Pietikäinen and Henna Virkkunen are nominated, but Petri Sarvamaa no, because he will start in June as a member of the European Court of Auditors.

People from the coalition of MPs aspire to the EU parliament Ville Kaunisto, Susanne Päivärinta, Aura Salla, Pekka Toveri and Jocka Träskbäck.

Pietikäinen and Virkkunen are strong, but one of the aforementioned five will win a seat in the EU Parliament.

If Kaunisto is elected to the EU Parliament, his place in the parliament will rise Linda Brandt-Ahde (cook). If Päivärinta or Toveri is chosen, their place will rise Martin Paasi (cook). If Salla is elected, he will be replaced Maaret Castrén (cook). If Träskbäck is elected, he will be replaced Jari Kinnunen (kok).

SDP’s leading candidate is a sitting MP Eero Heinäluoma. Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (sd) returns to the parliament from Brussels, so the second place is contested by, among other things, sitting members of parliament Maria Guzenina (sd) me Ville Merinen (sd).

If Guzenina is elected, he will be replaced Anette Karlsson (sd). If Merinen is elected, he will be replaced Hanna Laine (sd).