Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet was the 67th government of
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. The cabinet was in office from 15 April 1999 to 17 April 2003. It was a
center-left
Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The c ...
majority government, despite the
center-right
Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and mer ...
National Coalition Party's inclusion in the cabinet.
The
Green League
The Green League (VIHR, fi, Vihreä liitto , sv, Gröna förbundet), shortened to the Greens ( fi, Vihreät, sv, De Gröna), is a green political party in Finland.
Ideologically, the Green League is positioned on the centre-left of the polit ...
left the government on 31 May 2002 in protest of the government's decision to build the country's fifth nuclear power plant.
1999 establishments in Finland
Lipponen, 2
2003 disestablishments in Finland
Cabinets established in 1999
Cabinets disestablished in 2003
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