Antti Häkkänen
Antti Häkkänen | |
|---|---|
Häkkänen in 2024 | |
| Minister of Defence | |
| Assumed office 20 June 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Petteri Orpo |
| Preceded by | Antti Kaikkonen |
| Minister of Justice[1] | |
| In office 5 May 2017 – 6 June 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Juha Sipilä |
| Preceded by | Jari Lindström |
| Succeeded by | Anna-Maja Henriksson |
| Member of the Finnish Parliament for South-Eastern Finland | |
| Assumed office 22 April 2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Antti Edvard Häkkänen 16 January 1985 |
| Party | National Coalition |
| Spouse | Henna Pajulammi |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
| Website | www |
Antti Edvard Häkkänen (born 16 January 1985) is a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party. He has served as Minister of Defence since June 2023 in the Orpo cabinet and as Member of Parliament since 2015.[2] Häkkänen served as Minister of Justice in the Sipilä cabinet from 2017 to 2019.[3]
Career
Häkkänen graduated from the University of Helsinki with a Master of Law.[4]
Häkkänen served on the Mäntyharju town council from 2009.[5] He was elected as the Youth National Coalition Party leader in 2011 for the 2012-2013 period.[6]
The National Coalition Party nominated Häkkänen as a candidate for the 2014 European Parliament election but he did not gain enough votes.[7] In the 2015 Finnish parliamentary election he was nominated in the newly formed constituency of South-Eastern Finland, and became an elected MP with 6,212 votes.[8][9]
Häkkänen was elected as one of three vice-chairmen of the National Coalition Party at the party summit in June 2016, with the highest number of votes.[10]
In June 2023, he was appointed Minister of Defence in the Orpo Cabinet.[11]
In February 2024, Häkkänen declared that he was planning to introduce legislation that would prohibit people from resigning from the Finnish Defence Forces' military reserve, while calling resigning reservists unpatriotic.[12] The announcement led into a surge of resignation applications and the plan was widely criticized as unconstitutional and not in line with international treaties.[13]
Political views
Antti Häkkänen with other young members of the National Coalition Party visited a Republican Party meeting in 2012. According to Häkkänen, National Coalition Party youth share the financial views of Republican Party in the United States.[14]
Personal
Mr. Tapani Mäkinen (ex MP of National Coalition Party) was named special advisor to Justice Minister Häkkänen in May 2017. Mäkinen resigned in April 2018 due to a police investigation concerning claimed bribery.[15] Mäkinen received juridical charge in August 2019. According to Mäkinen, funds he received from Mr. Juhani Sjöblom (MP candidate of National Coalition Party) (Seepsula Oy) was a legal loan.[16]
References
- ^ "Council of State - Ministers of Justice". Valtioneuvosto.fi. Archived from the original on 2017-12-28. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ "MPs: Antti Häkkänen". Parliament of Finland. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ "Presidentti nimitti kolme uutta ministeriä – perussuomalaisten uusi kulttuuriministeri nosti kärkiaiheekseen poliittisten nuorisojärjestöjen tuet". Helsingin Sanomat. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ "Antti Häkkänen" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Kunnanvaltuusto" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Antti Häkkänen kokoomusnuorten puheenjohtajaksi" (in Finnish). 5 November 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Kataista avustava Antti Häkkänen meppiehdokkaaksi" (in Finnish). Maaseudun Tulevaisuus. 2 February 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Häkkänen Antti" (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Koko maa - ehdokkaat" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ Laitaraki, Timo (12 June 2016). "Antti Häkkänen nousi kokoomuksen varapuheenjohtajaksi — muut valitut ovat Sanni Grahn-Laasonen ja Janne Sankelo" (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Prime Minister Orpo's Government appointed". Valtioneuvosto. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ^ "Finnish Defence Minister calls resigning reservists "unpatriotic", plans law change". Yle News. 2 February 2024.
- ^ "Reservistä eronneiden määrä räjähti kasvuun – puolustusministeri Häkkänen lieventää puheitaan". Yle (in Finnish). 3 February 2024.
- ^ Miksi kokoomusnuoret kannattavat Yhdysvaltain republikaaneja? YLE 3.9.2012
- ^ Finnish Justice Ministry's special advisor Mäkinen steps down amid corruption probe YLE 3.4.2018
- ^ Pitkän linjan kokoomusvaikuttaja Tapani Mäkiselle korruptiosyytteet – lahjuksen antamisesta epäillään tuusulalaista ex-kansanedustajaa YLE 20.8.2019