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Finnish politician (born 1957)

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Pirkko Ruohonen-LernerMEP


Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 April 2023
Preceded by	Laura Huhtasaari
Constituency	Finland
In office 27 April 2015 – 1 July 2019
Preceded by	Sampo Terho
Constituency	Finland
Member of the Finnish Parliament
In office 21 March 2007 – 6 May 2015
Constituency	Uusimaa

Personal details
Born	Pirkko Anneli Ruohonen-Lerner (1957-02-06) 6 February 1957 (age 67) Hyvinkää, Finland
Political party	Finnish Finns Party EU European Conservatives and Reformists
Alma mater	University of Helsinki
Website	www.pirkon.info

Pirkko Anneli Ruohonen-Lerner (born 6 February 1957) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Finns Party, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists.

She was elected to Finnish Parliament in 2007 and served as a member of parliament until 2015. She was the chair of the party's parliamentary group from 2011 to 2014. In April 2015, Ruohonen-Lerner succeeded Sampo Terho in the European Parliament when Terho was elected to the Parliament of Finland.

In her political career, she has served as a member of the council of the municipality of Myrskylä from 1985 to 1988 (then with the National Coalition Party), and as a member of the council of the city of Porvoo since 1996.

She returned to the European Parliament on 11 April 2023 following the resignation of Laura Huhtasaari.

References

"Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerneristä tulee europarlamentaarikko". 4 May 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
Karvala, Samu (2023-04-13). "Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner palasi EU-parlamenttiin – "Olen sydämeltäni aina porvoolainen ja hamarilainen"". Uusimaa (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-04-17.

External links

Parliament of Finland: Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner (in Finnish)
Home page (in Finnish)

v t e Finns Party MPs 2011–2015
Juho Eerola Kike Elomaa Teuvo Hakkarainen Jussi Halla-aho (2011–2014) Lauri Heikkilä James Hirvisaari (2011–2013) Reijo Hongisto Olli Immonen Ari Jalonen Anssi Joutsenlahti Johanna Jurva Arja Juvonen Pietari Jääskeläinen Pentti Kettunen Kimmo Kivelä Osmo Kokko Laila Koskela (2011–2014) Jari Lindström Maria Lohela Anne Louhelainen Pirkko Mattila Lea Mäkipää Hanna Mäntylä Martti Mölsä Mika Niikko Jussi Niinistö Pentti Oinonen Tom Packalén Mika Raatikainen (2014–2015) Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner Vesa-Matti Saarakkala Timo Soini Ismo Soukola Maria Tolppanen Reijo Tossavainen Kaj Turunen Kauko Tuupainen Pertti "Veltto" Virtanen Ville Vähämäki Juha Väätäinen

Finns Party MPs 2011–2015

v t e Finns Party MPs 2015–2019
Juho Eerola Simon Elo Kike Elomaa Tiina Elovaara Teuvo Hakkarainen Reijo Hongisto Laura Huhtasaari Olli Immonen Ari Jalonen Arja Juvonen Toimi Kankaanniemi Kimmo Kivelä Kari Kulmala Rami Lehto Jari Lindström Maria Lohela Anne Louhelainen Pirkko Mattila Leena Meri (2015-) Jani Mäkelä Lea Mäkipää Hanna Mäntylä Martti Mölsä Mika Niikko Jussi Niinistö Pentti Oinonen Tom Packalén Mika Raatikainen Jari Ronkainen Veera Ruoho Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner (2015) Vesa-Matti Saarakkala Sami Savio Timo Soini Ville Tavio Sampo Terho Maria Tolppanen Kaj Turunen Ville Vähämäki

Finns Party MPs 2015–2019

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