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Eero Heinäluoma
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In the 1970s I was carried away to youth politics. Afterwards I worked for a long time in the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions in different ...
Hanna-Leena Hemming
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I JOINED THE PARTY (THE NATIONAL COALITION PARTY, WHICH IS A CONSERVATIVE PARTY) IN 1999 WHEN I GOT DISSATISFIED WITH THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN MY HOME TOWN ...
Sirpa Asko-Seljavaara
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I decided to come a politician because the public health care in Finland was in trouble.
Did you have strong political beliefs during your youth?
My mother was strongly ...
Maija Perho
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I didn't especially decide to become a politician. Since youth I have always participated different kind of activities for example school and student politics.
Did you have ...
Heli Passio
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I'm not quite sure if it was any kind of decision it just happened. I have already made up my mind not to become a politician (my ...
Risto Kuisma
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As a young 21 year old trade union activist 1968, I decided to participate in politics on a local level. I was elected as a member of ...
Rosa Meriläinen
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I started as an activist. NGO-world is still close to me. When you realise, that you can really make a difference and work for a better world, ...
Sinikka Mönkare
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When I graduated and became a doctor, I was also the mother of small children, and I wanted to be able to influence health care in my ...
Eva Biaudet
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It is something that just happened. Suddenly I found myself in a situation where I could no longer avoid to be called a politician by profession. But ...
Jari Vilén
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Could you explain to our readers when you decided to become a politician?
It was the Parliamentary elections in 1979 where the National Coalition Party won a landslide victory, but the party was still kept in opposition. I found this ...
Kaarina Dromberg
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I became interested in politics or should I say became interested in social issues when I was teenager and gradually I grew into politics. I also had ...
Antti Kalliomäki
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In 1982 I was asked to be a presidential elector candidate for Mauno Koivisto in the presidential elections. When I gave my commitment, it was then natural ...
Paula Lehtomäki
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I have always taken an interest in politics, but I don't think you can ever truly just decide to become a politician, it depends on the ...
Mauri Pekkarinen
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I first got interested in politics when I was a 23 or 24 year-old student at the University of Jyväskylä. It was the seventies and as the ...
Antti Kaikkonen
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Well, I guess my voters made this decision. But I've been working in politics since 1997, when I started my four year term as a president of ...
Sari Essayah
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I never made a certain decicion to because a politician but somehow I was driven into it. During my highschool years I was interested in schooldemocracy. Later ...
Kimmo Kiljunen
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I was politically active already at school age, so this was a natural choice for me.
Did you have strong political beliefs during your youth?
Yes, I had.
Was ...
Päivi Räsänen
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When I was young, I couldn't even imagine myself as a politician. I was over 30 years old already, when I came along. I got interested in ...
Janina Andersson
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Could you explain to our readers when you decided to become a politician?
I have never decided to become a politician, and still after 9 years as a MP I have some difficulties to think of myself as one. I ...
Satu Hassi
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Could you explain to our readers when you decided to become a politician?
There was never a clear decision "to become a politician". In the first half of the 1980ies I was very angry for some local decisions in my ...