Antti Juhani Rinne (; born 3 November 1962) is a Finnish politician who served as

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from June to December 2019, and served as Leader of the

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between 2014 and 2020.

Biography

A lawyer by profession, Rinne holds a

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degree from the

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. He served as chair of the Union of Private Sector Professionals (ERTO) from 2002 to 2005, the

Union of Salaried Employees The Union of Salaried Employees (TU, fi, Toimihenkilöunioni, sv, Tjänstemannaunionen) was a trade union in Finland. With 125,000 members, TU was a major trade union for workers in industry and industrial services, technics, economy and inf ...

from 2005 to 2010, and Trade Union Pro from 2010 to 2014.

Political activities

Rinne was elected chairman of the

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(SDP) on 9 May 2014, defeating

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. He was

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and Deputy Prime Minister of Finland between 2014 and 2015 and has been a

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since 2015. In the 2019 parliamentary election, Rinne led the Social Democrats to victory and served as Speaker of Parliament before being appointed as Prime Minister on 6 June 2019.

Rinne cabinet

Rinne and his cabinet resigned on 3 December 2019, when the Centre Party withdrew its support due to controversies on the handling of a postal strike.

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asked him to continue with a

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until a new government was appointed. On 10 December 2019,

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was appointed as Prime Minister. On 11 December 2019, Rinne was elected as the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, replacing Tuula Haatainen, who had been named as the Minister of Employment in the

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Controversies

In 2017, Antti Rinne provoked some controversy by encouraging Finns to reproduce. Antti Rinne was convicted of organizing an illegal strike with Ammattiliitto Pro against the

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. The conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeals (Hovioikeus in Finnish) with a decision in the end of 2018 which also ordered Rinne to pay fines and legal costs to the other party. Rinne had to resign from an ACP lawyer position (Automotive, Cargo and Ports worker's union, AKT in Finnish). He was charging twice for the same work-related commute. According to him, it had been negligence and amounted to about FIM 1,000 (€200). In 2005, the President of the ACP stated in an interview with the '' Suomen Kuvalehti'' that it was FIM 10,000 (€2,000). In a second case, Rinne was the manager of a housing company in

Lohja Lohja (; sv, Lojo) is a city and municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland. The city has a population of 47,518 (2017), and it covers an area of of which , or 8.3 percent, is water. The population density of Lohja is . The municipality is b ...

in Finland. The '' Suomen Kuvalehti'' reported that he failed to return the receipts for the year and paid for his own telephone bill from the housing company's cashier. FIM 25,000 (€5,000) of damages were claimed from him by the housing company. In 2022, Rinne applied for Mayor of Lohja. Rinne's socialist party has a long history of leading Lohja, but last year election results shifted the town council to right. The town council is expected to decide on the mayor in May 2022. The mayor's selection working group is led by Joona Räsänen, but he has recused himself, as Rinne is Räsänen's godfather.

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