Tanja Karpela

Tanja Tellervo Karpela ( born Vienonen; formerly Saarela, born August 22, 1970 in Salo, Finland) is a Finnish politician and former fashion model. As a candidate of the Centre Party, she was elected to the Finnish Parliament in 1999. From 2003 to 2007 she was Finnish Minister of Education.

Who lives in a second marriage mother of two children is often made ​​in the past about the Finnish tabloids Seuratt and Ilta - Sanomat. The former model who was crowned the 1991 Miss Finland went a few years later in the policy. Quick have criticized, they use their fame as a beauty queen to do now political career. Additional hanger for public discussions about their private lives were, inter alia, a one-year relationship with former Finnish Finance Minister Sauli Niinistö, the divorce of Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, the cause of which the press suspected an affair with Karpela, as well as the accusation against her appointment as Minister of Education obsessed with a book and before their acquaintance with Niinistö never visited the opera to have. Karpela complained repeatedly about the strong media interest, however, was of serious press organs to hear that their openness to the media in cases like Niinistö contributes significantly to their media presence.

However, your followers will appreciate it as a dedicated minister, whose culture budget was " the best thing since ten years." Karpela and their followers had Finland in the past often the slope to a " Sauna Society " accused in the affairs of men is not nearly as much social interest WOULD CHOOSE to be, as it was the case for women.

Saarela was on sick leave in mid-2005 after a hard fight against the tabloid press, who had greatly weakened, for a month. When she was back in the service, it was with the sentence "All the chauvinism that cooked up there, has only strengthened my belligerence " quotes.

In October 2005, she was photographed at an official state visit to Slovenia with a fake Prada purse. This incident aroused again great attention in the media, as they previously did on the way as culture minister only a few weeks a law banning by non -commercial imports of counterfeit goods.

  • Minister (Finland )
  • Minister of Education
  • Reichstag (Finland )
  • Member of the Finnish Centre Party
  • Pageant winner
  • Finn
  • Born in 1970
  • Woman
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