Jari Tapani Lindström (born 28 June 1965) is a

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politician and former Minister of Employment. He represented the

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till 2017 and was first elected to the

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in 2011 in the former constituency of

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. In 2014, Lindström was appointed the chairman of the Finns Party parliamentary group. In the 2015 elections he maintained his seat, standing in the newly formed South-Eastern constituency. He was appointed as both

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and Minister of Employment in May 2015. On 13 June 2017, Lindström and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the

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parliamentary group, which later formed into a political party called Blue Reform. Lindström took part in the 2019 parliamentary election as a candidate of the Blue Reform, but was not elected. Lindström worked at a paper mill and is also a qualified laboratory technician. He has voiced his support for

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under certain circumstances. In 2020 Lindström published his memoirs ''Syvään päähän'' where he reflected his time as both MP and minister, and also the splitting of the Finns Party in 2017.

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Parliament of Finland: Jari Lindström

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