Encyclopedia > Centre Party of Finland

  Article Content

Centre Party of Finland

The Centre Party or Suomen Keskusta is a political party in Finland. The party was founded in 1908 and was then known as the Agrarian Party or Maalaisliitto. The current Prime Minister of Finland is Matti Vanhanen, who succeeded Anneli Jäätteenmäki.

Although the party has an ideological background in the 19th century fennoman[?] movement, the party is rather the direct continuation of the Estate of the Peasantry[?] in the pre-1906 diets (see: the Riksdag of the Estates).

Prominent party leaders

Official website Suomen Keskusta (http://www.keskusta.fi/index.phtml)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Kings Park, New York

... income for a household in the town is $69,819, and the median income for a family is $80,952. Males have a median income of $53,125 versus $36,008 for females. The per ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 80.1 ms