Minna Arve (born 1974) is a

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politician who serves as the mayor of

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. Since August 2021 the post of the mayor became an elected office instead of a hired position. She represents the

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Education

Arve first studied to become a

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and graduated in 1996. She worked as a nurse between 1997-2004 and studied

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at the

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and earned her master's degree in Marketing in 2004 after working for a medical company . In addition to her mother tongue, Finnish, Arve also knows

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, French and

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Political career

Arve joined the NCP in 1994. Between 2010 and 2014 Arve was the chair of the city council of Turku. She has worked as the party's general secretary and was elected to the post in 2014. Arve was first elected into the city council of Turku in 2004. She has been reelected ever since. In 2017 the city council chose her as the town manager of Turku when her predecessor Aleksi Randell became the CEO of the Finnish construction industry's interest organisation. Next year '' Kuntalehti'', a Finnish magazine on municipal politics, published a comparison of 40 municipal manager's salaries, which placed Arve on the top with gross monthly income of 15,311 euros. In the 2021 municipal election, where she ran as her party's mayoral candidate, Arve got 1510 votes, third most in her party after MPs

Petteri Orpo Antti Petteri Orpo (born 3 November 1969) is a Finnish politician serving as the leader of the National Coalition Party since 2016. He has previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2017 to 2019, Minister of Finance from 2016 to 20 ...

and

Ilkka Kanerva Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva (28 January 1948 – 14 April 2022) was a Finnish politician and a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Lokalahti, now a part of Uusikaupunki in Southwest Finland. He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs ...

Political position

According to VAA published by Yle in 2021, Arve said that she is for

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for the drug users in Turku, offering free protection to people under 25, and having a

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in public buildings. As Arve became the general secretary of NCP (Oct2014 to Jan2016) she described the party as a

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with values. In March 2022, Arve courted controversy when upholding the banning of a Ukrainian flag being flown near the Russian consulate in Turku in protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

References

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