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{{short description|Finnish politician}}
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| name = Antti Kaikkonen
| name = Antti Kaikkonen
| image = Antti Kaikkonen in 2019.jpg
| image = Antti Kaikkonen 2019.jpg
| caption = Kaikkonen in 2019.
| caption = Kaikkonen in 2019.
| office = [[Minister of Defence (Finland)|Minister of Defence]]
| office = [[Minister of Defence (Finland)|Minister of Defence]]
| term_start1 = {{start date|2019|6|6|df=y}}
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| primeminister = [[Antti Rinne]]<br>[[Sanna Marin]]
| term_end1 = {{end date|2023|1|5|df=y}}
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| term_start = 6 June 2019
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| term_start = 28 February
| term_end = {{end date|2023|6|20|df=y}}
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| predecessor = [[Jussi Niinistö]]
| successor =
| successor = [[Antti Häkkänen]]
| primeminister1 = {{plainlist|
| office1 = [[Finnish Parliament|Member of the Finnish Parliament]]
* [[Antti Rinne]]
| constituency1= [[Uusimaa (electoral district)|Uusimaa]]
* Sanna Marin
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| term_start1 = 19 March 2003
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| primeminister = [[Sanna Marin]]
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| birth_name = Antti Samuli Kaikkonen
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| predecessor1 = [[Jussi Niinistö]]
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|02|14|df=y}}
| predecessor = [[Mikko Savola]]
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| birth_place = [[Turku]], [[Southwest Finland]], [[Finland]]
| successor1 = Mikko Savola
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| office3 = [[Centre Party (Finland)|Leader of the Centre Party]]

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| term_start3 = 15 June 2024
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| predecessor3 = [[Annika Saarikko]]
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| birth_name = Antti Samuli Kaikkonen
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'''Antti Samuli Kaikkonen''' (born 14 February 1974 in [[Turku]], [[Finland]]) is a Finnish politician of the [[Centre Party (Finland)|Centre party]]. He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament from [[Uusimaa (electoral district)|Uusimaa]] since 2003. Kaikkonen was the president of [[Finnish Centre Youth]] from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a member of Finnish Delegation to the [[Council of Europe]] since 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=772&kieli=en |title=Antti Kaikkonen |author= |date=20 September 2012 |work= |publisher=Parliament of Finland |accessdate=26 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824164033/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=772&kieli=en |archivedate=24 August 2012 }}</ref>


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'''Antti Samuli Kaikkonen''' (born 14 February 1974 in [[Turku]], Finland) is a Finnish politician who has served as chair of the [[Centre Party (Finland)|Centre Party]] since June 2024.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Centre Party picks Kaikkonen as new leader, NCP re-elects Orpo |publisher=yle.fi |work=yle |date=15 June 2024 |access-date=15 June 2024 |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20094263 }}</ref> He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament from [[Uusimaa (electoral district)|Uusimaa]] since 2003. He served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2023. Kaikkonen was the president of [[Finnish Centre Youth]] from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a member of Finnish Delegation to the [[Council of Europe]] since 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=772&kieli=en |title=Antti Kaikkonen |author= |date=20 September 2012 |publisher=Parliament of Finland |accessdate=26 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824164033/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=772&kieli=en |archivedate=24 August 2012 }}</ref>
In 2013, Kaikkonen was convicted of corruption charges stemming from a campaign financing scandal

<ref>{{cite news |title=Suspended prison sentences in campaign financing scandal |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/suspended_prison_sentences_in_campaign_financing_scandal/6472350 |accessdate=7 May 2020 |work=[[YLE]] |date=30 January 2013 </ref>
In 2013, Kaikkonen was convicted of corruption charges stemming from a campaign financing scandal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Suspended prison sentences in campaign financing scandal |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/suspended_prison_sentences_in_campaign_financing_scandal/6472350 |accessdate=7 May 2020 |work=[[YLE]] |date=30 January 2013}}</ref>


On 21 June 2016, Kaikkonen was chosen as the chairman of the Centre Party's parliamentary group.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/a1466473626964 |title= Antti Kaikkonen valittiin keskustan eduskuntaryhmän johtoon |date= 21 June 2016 |work= Helsingin Sanomat |accessdate=21 June 2016}}</ref>
On 21 June 2016, Kaikkonen was chosen as the chairman of the Centre Party's parliamentary group.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/a1466473626964 |title= Antti Kaikkonen valittiin keskustan eduskuntaryhmän johtoon |date= 21 June 2016 |work= Helsingin Sanomat |accessdate=21 June 2016}}</ref>


By 2019, Kaikkonen was parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party. Amidst the [[Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal]], he called for all party heads in Parliament to meet, and declared “everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tarmo Virki |title=Sex abuse cases color immigration debate before Finnish election |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-politics-crimes/sex-abuse-cases-color-immigration-debate-before-finnish-election-idUSKCN1P70OE |accessdate=31 January 2019 |work=[[Reuters]] |date=13 January 2019 |quote=Antti Kaikkonen, parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party, called for a meeting of all the parliamentary party heads, tweeting: “Everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”}}</ref>
By 2019, Kaikkonen was parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party. Amidst the [[Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal]], he called for all party heads in Parliament to meet, and declared "everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tarmo Virki |title=Sex abuse cases color immigration debate before Finnish election |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-politics-crimes/sex-abuse-cases-color-immigration-debate-before-finnish-election-idUSKCN1P70OE |accessdate=31 January 2019 |work=[[Reuters]] |date=13 January 2019 |quote=Antti Kaikkonen, parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party, called for a meeting of all the parliamentary party heads, tweeting: “Everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws.”}}</ref>
[[File:221013-D-TT977-0251 (52425279494).jpg|thumb|Kaikkonen with U.S. Secretary of Defense [[Lloyd Austin]] and Swedish Defence Minister [[Peter Hultqvist]] in Brussels, 13 October 2022]]


==Campaign fincance scandal==
==Campaign finance scandal==
In the autumn of 2009, Kaikkonen received his share of the campaign finance. At that time, it was brought to public, that the Youth Foundation, of which Kaikkonen had been the chairman of the board since 2003, had distributed election support money to Kaikkonen, in municipal-, parliamentary-, and European Parliament -elections. In addition, it had also financed [[Matti Vanhanen]]'s presidential election campaign, among other things.<ref>{{Cite web|date=21 September 2009|title=Säätiöjohtaja puolustaa vaalitukien jakamista|url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/saatiojohtaja-puolustaa-vaalitukien-jakamista/1872738|access-date=1 September 2020|website=mtvuutiset.fi|language=fi}}</ref> Kaikkonen resigned from the chairman's place, and then stayed as a member of the board.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kaikkonen jättää Nuorisosäätiön puheenjohtajuuden|url=http://yle.fi/uutiset/kaikkonen_jattaa_nuorisosaation_puheenjohtajuuden/5886222|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Yle Uutiset|language=fi}}</ref>


In the autumn of 2009, Kaikkonen received his share of the campaign finance. At that time, it was brought to public, that the Youth Foundation, of which Kaikkonen had been the chairman of the board since 2003, had distributed election support money to Kaikkonen, in municipal-, parliamentary-, and European Parlament -elections. In addition, it had also financed [[Matti Vanhanen]]'s presidential election campaign, among other things.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-09-21|title=Säätiöjohtaja puolustaa vaalitukien jakamista|url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/saatiojohtaja-puolustaa-vaalitukien-jakamista/1872738|access-date=2020-09-01|website=mtvuutiset.fi|language=fi}}</ref> Kaikkonen resigned from the chairman's place, and then stayed as a member of the board.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kaikkonen jättää Nuorisosäätiön puheenjohtajuuden|url=http://yle.fi/uutiset/kaikkonen_jattaa_nuorisosaation_puheenjohtajuuden/5886222|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Yle Uutiset|language=fi}}</ref>
The prosecutor demanded Kaikkonen's imprisonment in the Youth Foundation bribery trial, that began on 16 January 2012. In January 2013, the Helsinki District Court sentenced Kaikkonen to five months in conditional discharge for abuse of trust.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ovaskainen|first=Teppo|title=Antti Kaikkoselle ehdollinen vankeustuomio|url=https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/antti-kaikkoselle-ehdollinen-vankeustuomio/e95bd9e5-7168-377d-80b0-96dad7ec878a|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Uusi Suomi|language=fi}}</ref> He did not appeal his verdict.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Antti Kaikkonen: En valita tuomiosta – "Kaksinkertainen rangaistus"|url=https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/antti-kaikkonen-en-valita-tuomiosta-kaksinkertainen-rangaistus/75a7d911-9e69-3a39-8a13-cf644c8f72dd|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Uusi Suomi|language=fi}}</ref>


==Personal life==
The prosecutor demanded Kaikkonen's imprisonment in the Youth Foundation bribery trial, that began on January 16th 2012. In January 2013 the Helsinki District Court sentenced Kaikkonen to five months in conditional discharge for abuse of trust. <ref>{{Cite web|last=Ovaskainen|first=Teppo|title=Antti Kaikkoselle ehdollinen vankeustuomio|url=https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/antti-kaikkoselle-ehdollinen-vankeustuomio/e95bd9e5-7168-377d-80b0-96dad7ec878a|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Uusi Suomi|language=fi}}</ref> Kaikkonen didn't appeal his verdict. <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Antti Kaikkonen: En valita tuomiosta – ”Kaksinkertainen rangaistus”|url=https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/antti-kaikkonen-en-valita-tuomiosta-kaksinkertainen-rangaistus/75a7d911-9e69-3a39-8a13-cf644c8f72dd|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Uusi Suomi|language=fi}}</ref>
Kaikkonen has two children; Kaikkonen announced that he would take [[parental leave]] in early 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=2022-12-15 |title=Finland defence minister to take two months' paternity leave amid Nato bid |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/finland-defence-minister-to-take-two-months-paternity-leave-amid-nato-bid |website=theguardian.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Honours==

* [[File:FIN Order of the Cross of Liberty 1Class peace civil BAR.svg|55x55px]] [[Order of the Cross of Liberty]] (Finland, 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-01 |title=Ministeri Kaikkoselle 1. luokan Vapaudenristi rintatähden kera – "En oikein osaa muuta sanoa kuin kiitos, iso kiitos" |url=https://www.suomenmaa.fi/uutiset/ministeri-kaikkoselle-1-luokan-vapaudenristi-rintatahden-kera-en-oikein-osaa-muuta-sanoa-kuin-kiitos-iso-kiitos/ |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Suomenmaa |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[File:FIN Order of the White Rose Knight 1st Class BAR.svg|55x55px]] [[Order of the White Rose of Finland]] (Finland, 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-01 |title=Kunniamerkkien saajat julki – kunniamerkkikoneesta löydät kaikki nimet |url=https://yle.fi/a/3-9324773 |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Yle Uutiset |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[File:FIN Disabled War Veterans Cross BAR.svg|55x55px]] [[Cross of Merit of the War Invalides]] (Finland, 2021)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-12 |title=Henkilötiedot |url=https://www.anttikaikkonen.fi/henkilo/ |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Antti Kaikkonen |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[File:FIN Military Merit Medal BAR.svg|55x55px]] [[Military merit medal (Finland)|Military merit medal]] (Finland, 2020)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-03 |title=Kaikkoselle sotilasansiomitali |url=https://www.anttikaikkonen.fi/2020/06/03/kaikkoselle-sotilasansiomitali/ |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Antti Kaikkonen |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[File:Order of the Polar Star (after 1975) - Commander Grand Cross.svg|55x55px]] [[Royal Order of the Polar Star]] (Sweden, 2022)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/12943265bg/ca7e21ca/Shutterstock_12943265bg.jpg|title=Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen wearing the Royal Order of the Polar Star at the banquet in honour of the President of Finland at Stockholm in May 2022.|date=17 May 2022|access-date=18 October 2022|website=[[Shutterstock]]}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 18:46, 15 June 2024

Antti Kaikkonen
Kaikkonen in 2019.
Minister of Defence
In office
28 February – 20 June 2023 (2023-06-20)
Prime MinisterSanna Marin
Preceded byMikko Savola
Succeeded byAntti Häkkänen
In office
6 June 2019 (2019-06-06) – 5 January 2023 (2023-01-05)
Prime Minister
Preceded byJussi Niinistö
Succeeded byMikko Savola
Member of the Finnish Parliament
for Uusimaa
Assumed office
19 March 2003
Leader of the Centre Party
Assumed office
15 June 2024
Preceded byAnnika Saarikko
Personal details
Born
Antti Samuli Kaikkonen

(1974-02-14) 14 February 1974 (age 50)
Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Political partyCentre
OccupationPolitician

Antti Samuli Kaikkonen (born 14 February 1974 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish politician who has served as chair of the Centre Party since June 2024.[1] He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament from Uusimaa since 2003. He served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2023. Kaikkonen was the president of Finnish Centre Youth from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a member of Finnish Delegation to the Council of Europe since 2004.[2]

In 2013, Kaikkonen was convicted of corruption charges stemming from a campaign financing scandal.[3]

On 21 June 2016, Kaikkonen was chosen as the chairman of the Centre Party's parliamentary group.[4]

By 2019, Kaikkonen was parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party. Amidst the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, he called for all party heads in Parliament to meet, and declared "everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws".[5]

Kaikkonen with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist in Brussels, 13 October 2022

Campaign finance scandal

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In the autumn of 2009, Kaikkonen received his share of the campaign finance. At that time, it was brought to public, that the Youth Foundation, of which Kaikkonen had been the chairman of the board since 2003, had distributed election support money to Kaikkonen, in municipal-, parliamentary-, and European Parliament -elections. In addition, it had also financed Matti Vanhanen's presidential election campaign, among other things.[6] Kaikkonen resigned from the chairman's place, and then stayed as a member of the board.[7]

The prosecutor demanded Kaikkonen's imprisonment in the Youth Foundation bribery trial, that began on 16 January 2012. In January 2013, the Helsinki District Court sentenced Kaikkonen to five months in conditional discharge for abuse of trust.[8] He did not appeal his verdict.[9]

Personal life

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Kaikkonen has two children; Kaikkonen announced that he would take parental leave in early 2023.[10]

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ "Centre Party picks Kaikkonen as new leader, NCP re-elects Orpo". yle. yle.fi. 15 June 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Antti Kaikkonen". Parliament of Finland. 20 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Suspended prison sentences in campaign financing scandal". YLE. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Antti Kaikkonen valittiin keskustan eduskuntaryhmän johtoon". Helsingin Sanomat. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  5. ^ Tarmo Virki (13 January 2019). "Sex abuse cases color immigration debate before Finnish election". Reuters. Retrieved 31 January 2019. Antti Kaikkonen, parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party, called for a meeting of all the parliamentary party heads, tweeting: "Everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws."
  6. ^ "Säätiöjohtaja puolustaa vaalitukien jakamista". mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 21 September 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Kaikkonen jättää Nuorisosäätiön puheenjohtajuuden". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  8. ^ Ovaskainen, Teppo. "Antti Kaikkoselle ehdollinen vankeustuomio". Uusi Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Antti Kaikkonen: En valita tuomiosta – "Kaksinkertainen rangaistus"". Uusi Suomi (in Finnish). Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Finland defence minister to take two months' paternity leave amid Nato bid". theguardian.com. Agence France-Presse. 15 December 2022.
  11. ^ "Ministeri Kaikkoselle 1. luokan Vapaudenristi rintatähden kera – "En oikein osaa muuta sanoa kuin kiitos, iso kiitos"". Suomenmaa (in Finnish). 1 December 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Kunniamerkkien saajat julki – kunniamerkkikoneesta löydät kaikki nimet". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). 1 December 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  13. ^ "Henkilötiedot". Antti Kaikkonen (in Finnish). 12 February 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  14. ^ "Kaikkoselle sotilasansiomitali". Antti Kaikkonen (in Finnish). 3 June 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  15. ^ "Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen wearing the Royal Order of the Polar Star at the banquet in honour of the President of Finland at Stockholm in May 2022". Shutterstock. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
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