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Antero Vartia (born 22 August 1980 in
Helsinki
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) is a Finnish politician, entrepreneur and former actor representing the
Green League
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Ideologically, the Green League is positioned on the centre-left of the polit ...
. He was elected to the
Parliament of Finland
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in the
parliamentary election
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in 2015. Previously he was a candidate in the
2014 European Parliament election
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It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded candid ...
.
Vartia is known from the Finnish soap opera ''
Salatut elämät
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'', in which he played Kuisma Savolainen. Later he co-hosted the Finnish version of the Dutch documentary series
''Spoorloos''. Vartia's mother is from
Iceland
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, and thus Vartia has dual citizenship of Finland and Iceland.
References
1980 births
Living people
Politicians from Helsinki
Finnish people of Icelandic descent
Green League politicians
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2015–19)
Finnish male television actors
Male actors from Helsinki
21st-century Finnish male actors
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