Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Mika Raatikainen

Finnish politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mika Raatikainen
Remove ads

Mika Pekka Raatikainen (born 7 November 1961) is a Finnish politician, policeman and a member of Finnish Parliament, representing the Finns Party. Raatikainen was born in Helsinki. He was first elected as a substitute member to the parliament in 2011, and became member of parliament on 4 July 2014, when Jussi Halla-aho left to the European Parliament. In the 2015 parliamentary election, Raatikainen got 3,370 votes and got elected.[1]

Quick Facts Member of the Finnish Parliament for Helsinki, Preceded by ...

Raatikainen was not re-elected in the 2019 parliamentary election, but again took the seat of Halla-aho as a substitute in April 2019, due to Halla-aho's ongoing term in the European Parliament.[2]

Before a career in the politics, Raatikainen had a long career in the Helsinki Police Department, in which he started working in 1983.[3] He has a Lebanese wife, who he first met in Italy in 2006.[4]

Remove ads

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads