Lasse Pekka Männistö (born 16 March 1982) is a Finnish politician and an executive in charge of outsourcing and public relations at the Finnish
private hospital
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corporate group
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Mehiläinen
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He has been criticized for violating the dignity of Parliament by filing for mid-term resignation to accept a position as Deputy Mayor.
Career
Lasse Männistö was a Member of
Parliament
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from 2011 to 2015 representing the
National Coalition Party
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Founded in 1918, the ...
and elected with 4,866 votes. Additionally, he served as a member of Helsinki City Council from 2009 to 2017. In May 2015, he joined the Finnish
private hospital
A private hospital is a hospital not owned by the government, including for-profit and non-profit hospitals. Funding is by patients themselves ("self-pay"), by insurers, or by foreign embassies. Private hospitals are commonly part, albeit in var ...
corporate group
A corporate group, company group or business group, also formally known as a group of companies, is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control. These types of gr ...
Mehiläinen as an executive in charge of outsourcing and public relations.
Criticism
Männistö was criticized in 2014 for violating the dignity of Parliament by filing for resignation mid-term to accept a substitute position as Deputy Mayor of
Helsinki
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. For example, political science professor Matti Wiberg commented that "members of Parliament are not supposed to crumble the dignity of Parliament by trying to quit mid-term with meager cause". Männistö withdrew his resignation a day after and later labeled it a mistake. Finnish politician Laura Räty would have succeeded him as replacement Member of Parliament.
Politics of Finland
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