Antti Rinne

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Antti Rinne
45th Prime Minister of Finland
In office 6 June 2019 – 10 December 2019
President	Sauli Niinistö
Deputy	Mika Lintilä Katri Kulmuni
Preceded by	Juha Sipilä
Succeeded by	Sanna Marin
Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
In office 6 June 2014 – 29 May 2015
Prime Minister	Jyrki Katainen Alexander Stubb
Preceded by	Jutta Urpilainen
Succeeded by	Timo Soini
Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
In office 24 April 2019 – 5 June 2019
Preceded by	Paula Risikko
Succeeded by	Matti Vanhanen
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
In office 11 December 2019 – 16 December 2020
Speaker	Matti Vanhanen Anu Vehviläinen
Preceded by	Tuula Haatainen
Succeeded by	Tarja Filatov
Minister of Finance
In office 6 June 2014 – 29 May 2015
Prime Minister	Jyrki Katainen Alexander Stubb
Preceded by	Jutta Urpilainen
Succeeded by	Alexander Stubb
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
In office 9 May 2014 – 22 August 2020
Preceded by	Jutta Urpilainen
Succeeded by	Sanna Marin
Personal details
Born	(1962-11-03) 3 November 1962 (age 58) Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Political party	Social Democratic
Spouse(s)	Heta Ravolainen
Education	University of Helsinki

Antti Juhani Rinne (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈɑnt̪ːi ˈjuɦɑni ˈrinːe̞ʔ]) (born 3 November 1962) is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from June to December 2019, and served as Leader of the Social Democratic Party between 2014 and 2020.

Biography[]

A lawyer by profession, Rinne holds a Candidate of Law degree from the University of Helsinki.^[1] He served as chair of the Union of Private Sector Professionals (ERTO) from 2002 to 2005, the Union of Salaried Employees from 2005 to 2010, and Trade Union Pro from 2010 to 2014.

Political activities[]

Rinne was elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) on 9 May 2014, defeating Jutta Urpilainen.^[2]

He was Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Finland between 2014 and 2015 and has been a Member of Parliament since 2015.^[3][4] In the 2019 parliamentary election, Rinne led the Social Democrats to victory and served as Speaker of Parliament before being appointed as Prime Minister on 6 June 2019.^[5]

Rinne cabinet[]

Rinne and his cabinet resigned on the 3rd of December 2019, when the Centre Party withdrew its support^[6] due to controversies on the handling of a postal strike. President Sauli Niinistö asked him to continue with a caretaker government until a new government was appointed.^[7] On 10 December 2019, Sanna Marin was appointed as Prime Minister.^[8]

On 11 December 2019, Rinne was elected as the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, replacing Tuula Haatainen, who had been named as the Minister of Employment in the Marin Cabinet.^[9]

Controversies[]

Antti Rinne was convicted of organizing an illegal strike with Ammattiliitto Pro against the forestry industry. The conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeals (Hovioikeus in Finnish) with a decision in the end of 2018 which also ordered Rinne to pay fines and legal costs to the other party.^[10][11]

Rinne had to resign from an ACP lawyer position (Automotive, Cargo and Ports worker's union, AKT in Finnish). He was charging twice for the same work-related commute. According to him, it had been negligence and amounted to about FIM 1,000 (€200). In 2005, the President of the ACP stated in an interview with the Suomen Kuvalehti that it was FIM 10,000 (€2,000).^[12]

In a second case, Rinne was the manager of a housing company in Lohja in Finland. The Suomen Kuvalehti reported that he failed to return the receipts for the year and paid for his own telephone bill from the housing company's cashier. FIM 25,000 (€5,000) of damages were claimed from him by the housing company.^[13]

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