Antti Kaikkonen

Antti Kaikkonen
Antti Kaikkonen
	Kaikkonen in 2019.
Minister of Defence
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 6 June 2019
Prime Minister	Antti Rinne; Sanna Marin
Preceded by	Jussi Niinistö
Member of the Finnish Parliament
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 March 2003
Constituency	Uusimaa
Personal details
Born	Antti Samuli Kaikkonen; 14 February 1974; Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Political party	Centre
Occupation	Politician

Antti Samuli Kaikkonen (born 14 February 1974 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish politician of the Centre party. He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament from Uusimaa since 2003. Kaikkonen was the president of Finnish Centre Youth from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a member of Finnish Delegation to the Council of Europe since 2004.[1]

In 2013, Kaikkonen was convicted of corruption charges stemming from a campaign financing scandal [2]

On 21 June 2016, Kaikkonen was chosen as the chairman of the Centre Party's parliamentary group.[3]

By 2019, Kaikkonen was parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party. Amidst the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, he called for all party heads in Parliament to meet, and declared “everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”[4]

References

"Antti Kaikkonen". Parliament of Finland. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
{{cite news |title=Suspended prison sentences in campaign financing scandal |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/suspended_prison_sentences_in_campaign_financing_scandal/6472350 |accessdate=7 May 2020 |work=YLE |date=30 January 2013
"Antti Kaikkonen valittiin keskustan eduskuntaryhmän johtoon". Helsingin Sanomat. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
Tarmo Virki (13 January 2019). "Sex abuse cases color immigration debate before Finnish election". Reuters. Retrieved 31 January 2019. Antti Kaikkonen, parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party, called for a meeting of all the parliamentary party heads, tweeting: “Everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”

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[1] "Antti Kaikkonen". Parliament of Finland. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

[2] {{cite news |title=Suspended prison sentences in campaign financing scandal |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/suspended_prison_sentences_in_campaign_financing_scandal/6472350 |accessdate=7 May 2020 |work=YLE |date=30 January 2013

[3] "Antti Kaikkonen valittiin keskustan eduskuntaryhmän johtoon". Helsingin Sanomat. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

[4] Tarmo Virki (13 January 2019). "Sex abuse cases color immigration debate before Finnish election". Reuters. Retrieved 31 January 2019. Antti Kaikkonen, parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party, called for a meeting of all the parliamentary party heads, tweeting: “Everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”