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
The Finns Party ( , PS; , Sannf), formerly known as the True Finns, is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
The party achieved its electoral breakthro ...
until June 2017 and was the second deputy chairwoman of the party. She was elected to
the Parliament from
Lapland in
2011
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. She maintained her seat in the
2015 parliamentary election. She was appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Health in May 2015.
On 16 August 2016, Mäntylä announced that she would leave her minister duties for personal reasons and will continue as a Member of Parliament.
On 13 June 2017, Mäntylä and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the
New Alternative
The Finnish Reform Movement (, Korj), previously known as Blue Reform (), was a Finland, Finnish Conservatism, conservative Political parties in Finland, political party.
It was founded by the 19 MPs who left the Finns Party on 13 June 2017 in p ...
parliamentary group. On 21 June 2017, Mäntylä announced that she will leave the Parliament to work for the
Council of Europe
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.
By profession, Mäntylä is a youth worker, and she has studied social work in the
University of Lapland.
Before her parliamentary career she was an entrepreneur, and operated a lingerie retail outlet.
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References
External links
Parliament of Finland: Hanna Mäntylä
Home page
1974 births
Living people
People from Lahti
Finns Party politicians
Blue Reform politicians
Ministers of social affairs of Finland
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2011–2015)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2015–2019)
Women government ministers of Finland
21st-century Finnish women politicians
Women members of the Parliament of Finland
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