Antti Häkkänen

Antti Häkkänen
Minister of Justice[1]
Assumed office
5 May 2017
Prime Minister Juha Sipilä
Preceded by Jari Lindström
Personal details
Born (1985-01-16) 16 January 1985
Mäntyharju, Finland
Political party National Coalition Party
Website www.anttihakkanen.fi

Antti Edvard Häkkänen (born 16 January 1985 in Mäntyharju, Finland) is a Finnish politician, representing the National Coalition Party. He has served as a Member of Parliament since 22 April 2015.[2] On 5 May 2017, Häkkänen started as the Minister of Justice in Sipilä Cabinet.[3]

Career

Häkkänen graduated from the University of Helsinki with a Master of Law.[4]

Häkkänen served on the Mäntyharjun council from 2009.[5] He was elected as the Youth National Coalition Party leader in 2011 for the 2012-2013 period.[6]

The National Coalition Party nominated Häkkänen as a candidate for the 2014 European Parliament election but he did not gain enough votes.[7] In the 2015 Finnish parliamentary election he was nominated in the newly formed constituency of South-Eastern Finland, and became an elected MP with 6,212 votes.[8][9]

Häkkänen was elected as one of three vice-chairmen of the National Coalition Party at the party summit in June 2016, with the highest number of votes.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Council of State - Ministers of Justice". Valtioneuvosto.fi. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "MPs: Antti Häkkänen". Parliament of Finland. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Presidentti nimitti kolme uutta ministeriä – perussuomalaisten uusi kulttuuriministeri nosti kärkiaiheekseen poliittisten nuorisojärjestöjen tuet". Helsingin Sanomat. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Antti Häkkänen" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Kunnanvaltuusto" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Antti Häkkänen kokoomusnuorten puheenjohtajaksi" (in Finnish). 5 November 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Kataista avustava Antti Häkkänen meppiehdokkaaksi" (in Finnish). Maaseudun Tulevaisuus. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Häkkänen Antti" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Koko maa - ehdokkaat" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  10. ↑ Laitaraki, Timo (12 June 2016). "Antti Häkkänen nousi kokoomuksen varapuheenjohtajaksi — muut valitut ovat Sanni Grahn-Laasonen ja Janne Sankelo" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
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