Matti Torvinen (born 30 January 1957 in

Rovaniemi Rovaniemi ( , ; sme, Roavvenjárga ; smn, Ruávinjargâ; sms, Ruäʹvnjargg) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland, and its southern part Per� ...

) is a Finnish politician and the party secretary of the

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. He represented the

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in the City Council of

since 2012, being elected in 2012 and 2017. Torvinen was a candidate in the 2015

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, and the 2269 votes he gained were enough for a substitute place. In June 2017, another MP

Hanna Mäntylä Hanna Katariina Mäntylä (born 19 September 1974) is a Finnish politician and the former Minister of Social Affairs and Health. She represented the Finns Party until June 2017 and was the second deputy chairwoman of the party. She was elected to ...

left the Parliament, and it was confirmed that Torvinen will replace her on 1 July 2017. At the time, Finns Party's parliamentary group had split in two due to the aftermath of the recent

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. Torvinen joined the New Alternative, the faction that broke away from the Finns Party's parliamentary group. He subsequently resigned from the Finns Party. On 15 November 2017, the New Alternative was officially registered as a political party under the name of Blue Reform. In the first party convention, organized on 16 December 2017, Torvinen was elected as the party secretary.

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