Pirkko Työläjärvi (born 8 September 1938,

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) is a

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politician from the

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. She was member of the parliament from 1972 to 1985, and minister in several cabinets from 1975 to 1982. After the

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, President

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offered her the position to form a cabinet, however, she refused. She was deputy speaker of the parliament 1983–1985, In 1985 she left the parliament to take the position of the Governor of the

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, which she left in 1997. In municipality level, she was a member of Rauma city council from 1973 to 1980.

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