The Finns YLE

EXCELLENT CHOICE FOR FINNS PARTY BLOCK LEADER, SAMPO TERHO…….

And the died in the wool Leftist state media hacks at YLE pile on with the ”populist” smear tag.

Finns Party MPs pick freshman Terho as leader

The new head of the populist Finns Party parliamentary block, Sampo Terho, has only been in the legislature for a few weeks. His deputies include a former bodybuilder-pop star and a fireman.

Sampo Terho
Sampo Terho ran unopposed for the post of parliamentary whip. Image: Vesa Moilanen / Lehtikuva

The Finns Party parliamentary group has unanimously chosen former MEP Sampo Terho as its new leader.

Terho is a newcomer to the Finnish Parliament, having been elected for the first time in April. However he has been as a Member of the European Parliament since 2011, when he took over from party chair Timo Soini. That seat in Strasbourg has now been filled by Terho’s predecessor as parliamentary whip, Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner.

The 37-year-old Terho, who holds a degree in history, has served as a researcher at the National Defence University and as an EU peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Also on Monday, the nationalist party chose two deputy chairs: former bodybuilding champion and pop singer Ritva “Kike” Elomaa and Ari Jalonen, a former fireman from the west-coast town of Pori known as an ally of immigration critic and MEP Jussi Halla-aho.

Since the election, the party delegation was led by Jari Lindström until Friday, when he was sworn in as minister of justice and labour.

YLE

 

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