Anssi Joutsenlahti

Anssi Joutsenlahti
Personal details
Born (1943-09-17) 17 September 1943
Kankaanpää
Nationality Finn
Political party True Finns
Occupation clergyman (retired rector and provost)
Religion Finnish Evangelical Lutheran
Website http://www.anssijoutsenlahti.fi

Anssi Joutsenlahti is a retired clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and a member of the parliament of Finland. He was most recently elected in the 2011 election, representing the Finns Party. In the parliament he was made 2nd deputy Speaker of the parliament.

Background

Joutsenlahti first served in the parliament in 1979–1987 as an MP of the Rural Party of Finland, the predecessor to the Finns Party. When elected in 2011 Joutsenlahti promised to donate all his pay received from being a MP to charity.

Joutsenlahti also serves in local government, in the city council of Kankaanpää as a second deputy chairman. He also works as a priest. He has run 75 marathons representing the Kankaanpään Urheilijat (the Sportsmen of Kankaanpää) sports club.[1]

Career

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Official website" (in Finnish).
  2. https://web.archive.org/20110305202225/http://www.vatajankoski.fi:80/default.asp?section=5359. Archived from the original on March 5, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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