Deputy Prime Minister of Finland

Deputy Prime Minister of Finland Suomen pääministerin sijainen
Insignia of the Prime Minister of Finland
Incumbent Annika Saarikko since 10 September 2020
Appointer	Finnish Government
Inaugural holder	Johannes Virolainen
Formation	1957

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The Deputy Prime Minister of Finland (Finnish: Suomen pääministerin sijainen, Swedish: Finlands statsministers ställföreträdare, lit. Finland's Prime Minister's Substitute), officially titled the Minister deputising for the Prime Minister,^[1] is a member of the Finnish Government who becomes the acting Prime Minister if the Prime Minister becomes unable to discharge their duties. The Deputy Prime Minister is appointed by the Government and traditionally comes from the second largest party of a coalition government. In recent years^[when?] they have usually been the Minister of Finance as well.^{[citation needed]} The current Deputy Prime Minister of Finland is Annika Saarikko.^[2]

List of deputy prime ministers of Finland[]

No	Name	Image	Term	Portfolio	Party
1	Johannes Virolainen		1957	Minister of Education	Agrarian League
2			1957	Minister of Finance	Swedish People's Party
3	Esa Kaitila		1957	Minister of Trade and Industry	Liberal People's Party
4	Aarre Simonen		1957	Minister without Portfolio	Social Democratic Party
1 (2)	Johannes Virolainen		1957	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Agrarian League
5	Reino Oittinen		1957–1958	Minister of Education	Technical minister
6	Tyyne Leivo-Larsson		1958	Minister without Portfolio	Technical minister
1 (3)	Johannes Virolainen		1958	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Agrarian League
7	Onni Hiltunen		1958–1959	Minister of Trade and Industry	Social Democratic Party
8	Ralf Törngren		1959–1961	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Swedish People's Party
9	Eemil Luukka		1961	Minister of the Interior	Agrarian League
10	Kauno Kleemola		1961		Agrarian League
9 (2)	Eemil Luukka		1961–1962	Minister of the Interior	Agrarian League
1 (4)	Johannes Virolainen		1962–1963	Minister of Agriculture	Agrarian League
11	Aarne Nuorvala		1963–1964	Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office	Technical minister
5 (2)	Reino Oittinen		1964	Minister of Education	Technical minister
12	Ahti Karjalainen		1964–1966	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Agrarian League/Centre Party
5 (3)	Reino Oittinen		1966–1968	Minister of Education	Social Democratic Party
1 (4)	Johannes Virolainen		1968–1970	Minister of Education	Centre Party
13	Päiviö Hetemäki		1970	Minister of Finance	Technical minister
14	Veikko Helle		1970–1971	Minister of Labour	Social Democratic Party
13 (2)	Päiviö Hetemäki		1971–1972	Minister of Finance	Technical minister
15	Mauno Koivisto		1972	Governor of the Bank of Finland	Social Democratic Party
12 (2)	Ahti Karjalainen		1972–1975	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Centre Party
16	Olavi Mattila		1975	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Technical minister
17	Kalevi Sorsa		1975–1976	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Social Democratic Party
12 (3)	Ahti Karjalainen		1976–1977	Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office	Centre Party
1 (5)	Johannes Virolainen		1977–1979	Minister of Agriculture	Centre Party
18	Eino Uusitalo		1979–1982	Minister of the Interior	Centre Party
19	Ahti Pekkala		1982–1983	Minister of Finance	Centre Party
20	Paavo Väyrynen		1983–1987	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Centre Party
17 (2)	Kalevi Sorsa		1987–1989	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Social Democratic Party
21	Pertti Paasio		1989–1991	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Social Democratic Party
22	Ilkka Kanerva		1991	Minister of Labour	National Coalition Party
23	Pertti Salolainen		1991–1995		National Coalition Party
24	Sauli Niinistö		1995–2001	Minister of Justice 1995-1996 Minister of Finance 1996-2001	National Coalition Party
25	Ville Itälä		2001–2003	Minister of the Interior	National Coalition Party
26	Antti Kalliomäki		2003–2005	Minister of Finance	Social Democratic Party
27	Eero Heinäluoma		2005–2007	Minister of Finance	Social Democratic Party
28	Jyrki Katainen		2007–2011	Minister of Finance	National Coalition Party
30	Jutta Urpilainen		2011–2014	Minister of Finance	Social Democratic Party
31	Antti Rinne		2014–2015	Minister of Finance	Social Democratic Party
32	Timo Soini		2015–2017	Minister for Foreign Affairs	Finns Party/Blue Reform
33	Petteri Orpo		2017–2019	Minister of Finance	National Coalition Party
34	Mika Lintilä		2019	Minister of Finance	Centre Party
35	Katri Kulmuni		2019–2020	Minister of Economic Affairs 2019 Minister of Finance 2019–2020	Centre Party
36	Matti Vanhanen		2020	Minister of Finance	Centre Party
37	Annika Saarikko		2020–	Minister of Science and Culture	Centre Party

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