Koivisto I Cabinet

Mauno Koivisto's cabinet was the 51st government of

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, which lasted from 22 March 1968 to 14 May 1970. It was a majority government which was an based on the

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model. The Prime Minister of the cabinet was

Mauno Koivisto Mauno Henrik Koivisto (; 25 November 1923 – 12 May 2017) was a Finnish politician who served as the ninth president of Finland from 1982 to 1994. He also served as the country's prime minister twice, from 1968 to 1970 and again from 1979 to 19 ...

of the

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. Paasio's cabinet made lot of political reforms; pension laws,

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s, farmers and entrepreneur pension laws and liberating lower alcohol

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sales.

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