Veikko Vennamo

Veikko Emil Aleksander Vennamo until 1938 Fennander ( born June 11, 1913 in Jaakkima in the present Republic of Karelia, Russia, † June 12, 1997 in Helsinki) was a Finnish politician. Vennamo sat from 1945 to 1962 and from 1966 to 1987 in the Reichstag. In 1959, he was among the founders of the Peasant Party SMP.

Life

Vennamo was in Jaakkima as Veikko Fennander and the son of Emil Fennander, a branch manager of a bank, and Fanny Siviä born ( born Haikala ). In 1931 he wrote a after finishing school at the University of Viipuri. He was with the Rochester Swiss architect Kaija Sirén, Sirkka Tuominen, married. In 1938 he changed his surname from Swedish Fennander in the Finnish Vennamo.

In 1945 he moved to the Land League in the Reichstag. In the fifth cabinet Urho Kekkonen he was from 1954 to 1956 Deputy Minister of Finance under Penna Tervo of the Social Democratic Party. After the election, Kekkonen for Finnish President 1956 Vennamo began to become a critic of the pro-Soviet foreign policy Kekkonen, who also belonged to the Land League. In 1959 he founded the SMP, which was to protest party of small farmers and vulnerable people. Vennamo was a staunch opponent of the left-wing governments of the 1950s and 1960s. 1968, 1978 and 1982 he was a presidential candidate and also appeared there in the first two appearances against each Kekkonen on. 1968 Vennamo received 11.35% of votes in the electoral contest. 1978, when almost all parties Urho Kekkonen supported, Vennamo received only 4.68%. The Kekkonen supportive coalition came in the elections to 82.41 %. In 1982, he received just 2.3 %. The Social Democrat Mauno Koivisto was elected in these elections to Kekkonen's successors.

Vennamo had been from 1959 to 1979 Chairman of the SMP. After he had established in 1959 the party and resigned from the Land League, he was still sitting up in 1962 in the Finnish parliament but without a political group to belong to. In the parliamentary elections in 1962, the SMP was indeed 2.2% a percentage of the popular vote, who assured a seat in Parliament as a rule, due to the Finnish electoral system and the distribution of electoral districts received the SMP but no seat four years later brought the SMP Although only 1.0 % of the vote but Vennamo could make the leap to the Reichstag as the only candidate of his party. In the elections of 1970, the SMP achieved with 10.5% their best result and presented from now on 18 deputies. Vennamo sat still until the elections in 1987 in the Reichstag. After his retirement eventually waned and the influence of Suomen Maaseudun puolue that only 4.9 % and 1.3 % of the vote in the following elections in 1991 and 1995.

The politician Timo Soini, who was from 1992 to 1995 and later became Secretary General of the SMP in the parliamentary elections in 2011, with its base Finns in the headlines, is regarded as the protégé Vennamos.

  • Reichstag (Finland )
  • Member of the Finnish Centre Party
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 1997
  • Man
Vyborg Finnish parliamentary election, 1962 Finnish parliamentary election, 1970 Finnish parliamentary election, 1987 Finnish parliamentary election, 1991 Finnish parliamentary election, 1995 Finns Party
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