Esko-Juhani Tennilä (born 10 October 1947) is Finnish leftist politician from

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and member of Parliament since 1975 until 2011. Tennilä was born in

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and has studied in

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and worked as reporter for Hämeen Yhteistyö 1966–1975. Tennilä has been elected to Parliament from lists of

SKDL Finnish People's Democratic League ( fi, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto, SKDL; sv, Demokratiska Förbundet för Finlands Folk, DFFF) was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic Pa ...

1975–1979, as independent 1983, as a representative of

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in 1987, and representative of Left Alliance from 1991. Tennilä was member of pro-

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opposition on Communist Party of Finland that was expelled from the party in 1986 and formed DeVa. He was chairman of

Communist Party of Finland (Unity) The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP sv, Finlands kommunistiska parti, FKP) or New Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Uusi Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, USKP sv, Finlands nya kommunistiska parti, FNKP) is a political ...

in 1989–1990. Tennilä left the chairmanship in 1990 as he joined Left Alliance. Tennilä was internal critic of Left Alliance politics and was dismissed in 1995 from Left Alliance's parliamentary group as he opposed joining the

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. He returned to list of Left Alliance in 1999 elections. Tennilä has profiled himself as representative of Northern Finland and was in 2003 the most popular of the elected representatives in Lapland constituency. He has written poetry and children's books.

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