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Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Tarja Kaarina Halonen (born 24 December 1943 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

She served as the 11th President of the Republic of Finland and the first female head of state from 2000 to 2012.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[1] He took office on 1 March 2000 and was re-elected President of the Republic in 2006.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Helsinki in 1968 and began his career at the Association of Student Unions of Finland, where he worked as Secretary of Social Affairs and Organizations 1969—1970.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He started working as a lawyer for the Finnish Confederation of Trade Unions SAK in 1970 [1] and continued in this position until 1979.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[2] Halonen joined the Social Democratic Party of Finland in 1971.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

His political career began in 1974, when he was appointed parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

As an MP, Halonen was first elected from the Helsinki constituency in 1979 and then five times for a further term until he took office as President of the Republic in 2000.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In Parliament, he served as Chairman of the Committee on Social Affairs 1984—1987, Vice-Chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee 1991—1995, and Chairman of the Grand Committee 1995.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

A key part of Halonen's political activities were also his five terms in the Helsinki City Council 1977—1996.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen has been a minister three times: Minister of Social Affairs and Health 1987—1990, Minister of Justice 1990—1991 and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1995—2000.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He was also Minister of Nordic Cooperation 1989—1991.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[3] During Halonen's term of foreign affairs, Finland first held the Presidency of the European Union from July to December 1999.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen has been active in the Council of Europe, first as Vice-President of the Finnish Parliamentary Delegation 1991—1995 and later in the Committee of Ministers.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He was also a member of the so-called Committee of Wise Men set by the Council of Europe 1998—99.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

During his term as president, Halonen served as President of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization set by the ILO from 2002 to 2004.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Since March 2009, she was president of The Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL).


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Since August 2010, Halonen has also served as co-chair of the High Level Panel on Sustainable Development set by the UN Secretary-General.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

During her career, Halonen has paid particular attention to human rights, democracy and civil society.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Matters of social justice and the promotion of equality have also been central throughout his political career.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

As president, Halonen was very popular among Finns: according to polls, his popularity peaked in December 2003, when 88% of Finns were satisfied with Halose.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Since his presidency, Halonen has expressed his interest and availability for international positions of trust, but that he will continue to participate in social debate in Finland as well.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Childhood Tarja Halonen was born during the Continuation War, Christmas Eve 1943.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's childhood home was in the Kallio district of Helsinki at Hämeentie 34.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Kallio was already a strongly traditional working-class neighbourhood when Halonen was born.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Tarja Halonen's mother, Lyyli Elina Loimola (formerly Öfverström, 1917—1990) had moved to Kallio from Lohja in 1939.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

By profession, Loimola was a sowner and domestic helper.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The father, Vieno Olavi Halonen (1915—1981), was a native of Kuopio and worked as a welder.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's parents had married at the start of the Winter War and Tarja Halonen was born a few years later.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Vieno Halonen was at the front and Lyyli Loimola was working in a shoe factory when Tarja Halonen was born.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[4] When Halonen was two years old, his father Vieno Halonen went to the kiosk to buy a magazine and never returned home to his family again.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen has subsequently made little comment on the incident, but officially Halonen's parents divorced in 1948.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Vieno Halonen was a decorated soldier during the war who fought in the so-called Ace Regiment.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Vieno Halonen was wounded three times during the war and after the war he was decorated with First, Second and Fourth Class Medals of Liberty.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Tarja Halonen has said in subsequent interviews that she met her father only a few times.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[5] In 1950, Lyyli Halonen remarried to electrician Thure Herman Forssi (1919—1974).


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Tarja Halonen became very close to Forss and she referred to him as her own father.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Thure Forss was active in the labour movement and Halonen has later stated that Forss had a great influence on his own idealism.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to Halonen, Forss's entire family and family were workers with good self-esteem who were happy to debate issues.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen has stated that her mother, on the other hand, had experienced the post-Civil War period of 1918 living so hard in the countryside that she wanted little to share her experiences with her daughter.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen has described her mother as a true survivor who was an active and resilient person who valued good, honest and modest, hard working people.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

When Halonen went into politics, he stated himself that he appreciated and respected these same traits in people.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[6] The importance of studying at home was also stressed.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 1950 Halonen started his studies at the Kallio National School from where he later continued his studies at Kallio's coeducational school.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

This was not very common for the children of working families in the 1950s, as grammar school was fee-paying and it was necessary to aspire to.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Kallio co-educational school was once the first grammar school north of the longbridge and most of the pupils came from working families like Halonen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At home, Halonen was given permission to apply to grammar school, but parents expected success and good results from Halonen because of its fee.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen later reported that her parents said she was permitted to stay once in her class and a few times to get terms, though nothing like this later happened.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen received both good grades and scholarships at the school instead.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the spring of 1962 Halonen wrote to matriculate from the real subjects class at Kallio Coed School.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[7] At the same time he became the first matriculation of his workers' family.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[8] [9] Youth Halonen later said in interviews that she was a kind girl whose youth was not very wild.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, the new American youth culture of the 1950s—1960s fold also drew Halonen with him and later he recalled, among other things, Paul Anka's 1959 Linnanmäki concert and the dress fashion of the time.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, Halonen focused more on studying himself and after graduating as a matriculation, he left to study art history at the University of Helsinki.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

It took a year of art history studies before Halonen moved on to read law.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

With a Bachelor of Laws, he graduated in 1968 majoring in Criminal Justice.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen was also able to accommodate a multi-year engagement, which ended when Halonen's partner went abroad for development cooperation.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[2] [10] Halonen started his first jobs as a lawyer even before his graduation in 1967 at Luotoonvalvonta Oy.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

After working at the company for a few years, he was hired as the Social and Organisation Secretary of the Association of Finnish Student Unions in 1969.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to his fellow students, Halonen did not belong to the radical wing of the student movement, as Halonen took little part in student politics and even in the takeover of Old in 1968, Halonen was involved mainly as a flanker.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He was more oriented towards human rights and equality issues and especially close to young Halonen's heart were already at that time the defence of minorities and problems in developing countries.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[11] However, during his studies he was involved in the EI EEC movement and participated in demonstrations against the Vietnam War.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's work in the matriculation movement led him to become more interested in politics than before and in 1970 he moved to become a jurist at SAK.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

She was, meanwhile, the first woman ever to work as a lawyer at SAK.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 1971, Halonen became a member of the SDP.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[1] Beginning a political career, Halonen was active in numerous single-issue movements, including support organizations for those in prison, Roma and developing countries.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He was also the founder of the Sexual Political Association Sexpo, which was Seta's predecessor.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[12] Politics began to take more interest in Halo no later than the mid-1970s when Kalevi Sorsa, the then president and foreign minister of the SDP, asked him to be his parliamentary secretary.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen agreed to the position, but also continued his work as a jurist for SAK at the same time.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[11] Sorsa later recalled that he needed to be his parliamentary secretary a person with both knowledge of the law and a good connection with labour market organisations.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen became one of the ties linking the SDP, the government and the trade union movement.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Kalevi Sorsa soon discovered that the young jurist, “lent” by SAK chairman Niilo Hämäläinen, was an independently minded but at the same time loyal to the government.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[2] Upon joining the SDP, Halonen belonged to its left wing.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 1973 Halonen was involved in signing the Left Joint “EEC Trade Agreement to Reject” adress, and from 1970 to 1972 he participated as Vice-President and SAK representative in the activities of the GDR Recognition Committee, from Halo later to the time of the 2006 presidential election was criticized.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen rebuffed the criticism, stating that there had also been right-wing politicians as a member of the committee, and that in 1973 Finland recognized both the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[13] Halonen's role has been highlighted in later years.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The GDR Recognition Committee opposed Finland's official foreign policy line.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The group is also reported to have circulated East German propaganda material in Finland [14].


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen stood for election in the parliamentary elections in 1975, but still failed to pass.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the same year Halonen was elected to the Representative Council of the Cooperative Movement Elanto, where he served as President until his arrival.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 1977, he was first elected to the Helsinki City Council, where he served until 1996.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the 1979 parliamentary election, he ran for a repeat seat in parliament and was elected.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Just a few months before her election, Halonen had become a mother when she and Kari Pekkonen, then secretary of the SDP parliamentary group, had a daughter Anna.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen and Pekkonen divorced in the early 1980s.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In Parliament, Halonen gained attention as a word-ready and courageous politician.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

She breastfed her daughter in the middle of a workday, and from 1980 to 1981 she was president of Seta, an advocacy group for sexual equality.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

During his tenure as Seta chairman, Halonen conducted a parliamentary survey on discrimination against sexual minorities. [15].


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In Parliament, Halonen's first major assignment was chairmanship of the Committee on Social Affairs in 1985—1986.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[4] He participated in two bills related to the socialization of commercial banks.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[16] Rising to ministerial positions Halonen served for a long time as a member of the ranks until in 1987 Kalevi Sorsa asked him to become Minister of Social Welfare, Alcohol and Equal Opportunities in Harri Holker's government.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

As a conviction socialist, Halonen was at first suspicious of working in a blue-red government, but nevertheless eventually agreed to take up the position.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Later, the position was further supplemented by the portfolio of the Minister of Nordic Cooperation between 1989 and 1991.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Three years later in 1990, Halonen was made Minister of Justice in the same government when Matti Louekoski took over the position of Minister of Finance.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The Attorney General's assignment marked the first drastic plundering that Halone was subjected to in his political career.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

During the depression of the early 1990s, several defectors from the Soviet Union sought to reach Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Justice Minister Halonen made the conversion decisions on defectors, which were severely criticised by the public.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Everyone knew that defectors in the neighbouring country were not treated gently, but Halonen relied on international treaties and articles of law in the case and was not provoked by criticism.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[11] The SDP was one of the losers of the 1991 parliamentary elections, and Halonen moved with the party as MP to the opposition when Esko Aho became Prime Minister of the new bourgeois government.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Four years later, the SDP won a landslide victory in the 1995 parliamentary elections, and SDP President Paavo Lipponen emerged as Prime Minister.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Lipponen asked Halo to be the foreign minister of his rainbow government, which also came as a surprise to many Social Democrats.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[17] The Foreign Minister's portfolio had been peddled to Pertti Paasio, the long-line influence of the SDP, and no woman had previously served as foreign minister.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Despite the adversity, Halonen continued to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs also in Lipponen's second government after the 1999 parliamentary elections.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The role of Minister of Foreign Affairs meant more significant visibility for Halonen both in Finland and internationally.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The SDP then began to consider whether Halonen could stand for election in the SDP primary for the 2000 presidential election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[11] Prior to his election as President, Halonen had time to serve as Minister for a total of 3238 days.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

This makes her the third most distant woman to serve as a minister in Finland, after Sinikka Mönkäree of the SDP and Paula Risiko of the Coalition.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[18] [19] As President First Presidential term (2000—2006) Election campaign 2000 As the 2000 presidential election approached, party primaries began to be held in the SDP.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Sitting President Martti Ahtisaari found the requirement to participate in the primary as humiliating, and he did not agree to it.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Instead, shortly before the expiration of the registration period as a candidate, he announced that he would stand aside from the 2000 election altogether.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The SDP primary was therefore fought between three candidates.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In addition to Foreign Minister Halonen, the candidates were European parliamentarian Pertti Paasio and EU Ombudsman Jacob Söderman.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen won the SDP primary with clear numbers, 7300 votes.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The other primary candidates received 2800 and 2500 votes respectively.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the national level, Halonen's endorsement curves remained still low during the primaries, and in the fall of 1999, he was only in fourth place among presidential candidates placed in opinion polls.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In early 2000, however, Halonen's popularity began to grow, and suddenly the main candidates for the presidential election were Esko Aho of the centre and Tarja Halonen of the SDP.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Aho tried to win popular support by appealing to values such as the nuclear family and religion.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen did not fit the traditional moulds that Aho represented: the election campaign was fought by a single parent who had no intention of marrying his longtime male friend Pentti Arajärvi.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's actual campaign sought to make her a human and understandable figure who is easy to approach.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the same time, however, efforts were made to maintain a representative and tactful image.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[20] Halonen finally received 40% of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential election, with Esko Aho coming second in the first round with 34% support.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Also in the second round, Halonen's opponents sought to highlight his political redness, but this did not emerge as a major factor in the election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Many politicians and public figures from right to left gave their public support to Halonen before the election, stressing that presidential elections are specifically about personal elections.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The election of a woman to lead the republic could also be offset by the previous presidential election of 1994, when Elisabeth Rehn of the Swedish People's Party lost in a tight vote to the SDP's Martti Ahtisaari.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the second round, Halonen eventually defeated Aho with a narrowly 51.6% vote share and thus Halonen became President of the 11th Republic of Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Women went to the polls in the 2000 elections more diligently than men, with a turnout of 83.0% for women and 77.2% for men.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[2] The year 2000 Halonen's first presidential term began on the marking of the newly reformed Constitution, which came into force on the same day that Halonen took office on 1 March 2000.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The new constitution significantly narrowed and altered presidential prerogatives, and no one had tested the new constitution in practice yet.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen, the government and Parliament had to find the right ways of cooperation, and clashes could not always be avoided.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In April, Halonen began his term by passing a law on the use of force in peacekeeping activities in cases when missions have a UN or OSCE mandate.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

That same month, he also visited the United States for the first time, where he met President Bill Clinton, who was in power for his last year.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the summer, Halonen entered into a marriage with his longtime cohabiting partner, Pentti Arajärvi.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the autumn, Halonen first hit the limits given by the new constitution when members of the Executive Board were elected to the Bank of Finland in May 2000 to replace Esko Ollila, a centrist who retired in May 2000, and the late Coalition Matti Korhonen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

On 12 September, the Bank of Finland's banking delegation proposed that Mauri Pekkarinen, a centrist MP, and Johnny Åkerholm, the bank manager, be elected to the Board of Directors.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

On the other hand, Suvi-Anne Siimes, the Chair of the Left Alliance and the other Finance Minister who presented the issue to Halonen, suggested that both a woman and a man should be chosen for the positions.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The Social Democrats ended up supporting the original motion of the Banking Council, and thus the government also came to the same solution.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, President Halonen exercised his powers and, following a new proposal from the Council of State, appointed only one new member, Dr. Sinikka Salo, who worked at the European Central Bank, to the Board of Directors of the Bank of Finland on 22 September 2000.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In September, Halonen, along with Namibian President Sam Nujoma, chaired the UN Millennium Summit, where member countries agreed targets for the next millennium.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[21] Halonen renewed the Fourth of July celebrations when she hosted them for the first time in 2000.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Among the party guests were more young influencers, representatives of NGOs and cultural people.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

As invited guests celebrated in the castle, so-called hoe guests demonstrated in front of the castle.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen commented on the demonstration by saying that “you have to fit in the same street.”


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's first Independence Day celebrations were historical in that three Social Democratic presidents were present for the first time: Mauno Koivisto, Martti Ahtisaari and Tarja Halonen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[2] Year 2001 In November 2001, Halonen was facing a new appointment to the Board of Directors of the Bank of Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The State Council submitted to President Halonen that he would accept Esko Aho, the President of the Centre Party, and Ilkka Kanerva, MP, as new members of the Executive Board.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, the Council of State was not unanimous on the motion and on this basis Halonen referred the matter back to the Council of State.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Subsequently, the Government proposed that Pentti Hakkarainen, a bank manager, be elected to the position and Halonen approved the motion.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's decision attracted criticism.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Among other things, Attorney-General Paavo Nikula felt the correct procedure would have been to comply with the original motion by bank commissioners, which would have seen two new members elected to the board.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen justified his decision on the fact that the Council of State could not find unanimity in the nomination case and he hoped from the outset for the most unanimous decision on the matter.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen stated in an interview with MTV3 that “when you have to find someone who can get support as broadly as possible, then you try to find a solution that everyone is behind”.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen would have been willing to appoint someone with social experience as well, but pointed out that the most viable of such candidates, Finance Minister Sauli Niinistö, withdrew from the nomination.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen stressed that he himself had nothing against the appointment of Esko Aho or Ilkka Kanerva.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[22] Year 2002 In March 2002, Halonen began to lead the UN Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation together with President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In April, he met at the White House with fresh US President George Bush.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The 2002 meeting was the last formal meeting in a long time between the United States and the Finnish top leadership, and this subsequently sparked plenty of discussion in Finland regarding Finland-US relations.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the 2000s, Halonen was a fierce critic of the George Bush-led administration for starting the Iraq war and later also for the administration's sanctioning of torture.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said at a U.N. Security Council session that he considered the U.S.-led war in Iraq illegal and contrary to international treaties.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[21] Halonen's popular popularity remained good and rose since the 2000 presidential election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Immediately after the election, Halonen reached only 52% in the opinion polls, but after that his support rose and remained at a high level throughout the first term.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In November 2002, according to a survey commissioned by newspaper Kaleva Suomen Gallup, three out of four Finns were satisfied with President Halonen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Only eight per cent of Finns surveyed found the President's actions reproachful and a good tenth viewed Halo neutrally.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halo was viewed the most snuggly by centrist voters in the 2002 poll, 64% of whom were satisfied with Halose.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[23] In November, a portrait of President Halonen painted by artist Rafael Ward was unveiled, which, due to its traditional style, provoked plenty of debate.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[24] 2003 The 2003 Parliamentary elections were formed as a duel between the SDP and the centre and the main theme of who would become Prime Minister of the next government.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the race for the prime minister's seat in Ankara, the so-called Iraq spill emerged as a punching weapon.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Anneli Jäätteenmäki, the president of the centre and leader of the opposition, used her knowledge of the Iraq war against Paavo Lippo of the SDP during the election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Centre emerged as the winner of the election and Jäätteenmäki as the next Prime Minister of Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen was initially pleased with Jäätteenmäki's rise to Prime Minister and was particularly glad that Finland had finally received a woman as Prime Minister.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Immediately after the election, efforts were made to find out where Jäätteenmäki had obtained his information on Iraq and it emerged that Jäätteenmäki had quoted documents declared secret by the Foreign Office in his review.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Jäätteenmäki, who became Prime Minister, gave a brief to Parliament on 18 June 2003, but was accused of lying.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Jäätteenmäki's announcement led to a political crisis which resulted in Jäätteenmäki announcing to President Halonen his resignation from the position of Prime Minister on 24 June in Kultaranta in Naantali.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Jäätteenmäki was succeeded by centrist Defence Minister Matti Vanhanen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[25] In a book later published in 2005, Tarja Halonen — one of us Halonen criticised Jäätteenmäki for not thinking of Finland's interest in secretly obtaining Iraq documents from the Presidential Office.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 2011, in an interview with Yle's A-studio, Halonen described the events of summer 2003 as extremely sad.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said he was glad that similar situations do not come up very often.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[26] [27] The Iraq spill severed the intervals between Halose and Jäätteenmäki.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen was furious when it was later revealed that the President's own adviser Martti Manninen was the source of Jäätteenmäki's Iraq memo.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Paavo Lipponen, a former prime minister who rose to become speaker of parliament, stoked the president's fury by telling Halonen that even the president himself had been rumoured in centrist circles as a leaker of documents.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The intervals between the government partners SDP and the centre were tested, but the cooperation continued, despite this, until the end of the Vanhanen I government.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[28] In the same year, the United States began a war against Iraq.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen considered the war initiated by the United States to be illegal and stated that Finland should support the UN during the Iraq crisis.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen gave a speech at the closing of the parliamentary term in which he stated that Finland's position on the crisis in Iraq had been clear all along.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to the position, any further action against Iraq must be decided by the UN Security Council and has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen stressed that without a mandate from the Security Council, the use of force against Iraq is unacceptable and that Finland would support the continuation of the work of weapons inspectors as long as the work was meaningful and useful.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the same speech, Halonen also addressed Finnish welfare services, which he characterized as an investment in the future.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

From the work of the parliamentary term that ended in Parliament, he raised two examples: the right to free pre-school education for all six-year-olds and everyone's right to publicly supported or arranged dental care.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[29] Year 2004 In February 2004, the UN Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation chaired by Halonen completed its report.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In April, Halonen followed the position of the Banking Council and the Council of State in his appointment as Director of the Bank of Finland and appointed EU Commissioner Erkki Liikanen as President of the Bank of Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[30] In September, Halonen accepted Finland's entry into the 2012 Ottawa Agreement banning landmines, although he would have hoped for a faster accession timetable.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen considered it an embarrassing matter for Finnish foreign policy that Finland was delaying the decision to abandon landmines.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In an interview with MTV3, Halonen said he was stubborn about the fact that, with Finland having signed an agreement banning landmines as early as 1997, it was now time to make a solution for its own mines.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[31] The year 2004 brought a lot of criticism of the foreign policy led by Halonen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen gave a speech at the U.N. Security Council in September in which he said the U.S.-led war in Iraq was illegal because it lacks U.N. mandate.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Risto E. J. Penttilä, head of the business delegation, strongly criticised Halonen's speech at the UN.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to Penttilä, Halonen also became embroiled in the United States presidential election battle with his speech, as Penttilä felt that the statement could also be interpreted as a statement on behalf of John Kerry, the Democrat candidate in the ongoing US presidential election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja stepped in to defend the president, noting that the Finnish line that Halonen had expressed in the speech had remained similar for a long time.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen himself regretted the strife of the UN countries in the months leading up to the Iraq war.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He described the time as a “failure of the international community” and hoped that cooperation will work better in trying to restore security and stability to Iraq.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[32] In December 2004, Halonen said in Moscow with Russian President Putin the countries' relations were in order despite certain tensions.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The meeting, organised at the initiative of President Vladimir Putin, was not intended to sign any agreements, but to show that relations between countries have not deteriorated.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the meeting, Putin expressed hope that Finland would continue its activities to develop EU-Russia relations and that economic relations between Finland and Russia would develop faster than currently.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Differences of views were visible between the presidents, among other things, on what constitutes the status of the Russian population in the Baltic states.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Putin raised concerns about their rights, but Halonen recalled that both the European Union and the Council of Europe have stated that the treatment of the Russian population corresponds to international regulations [33].


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Artist Juhani Toukonen painted two portraits of President of the Republic Tarja Halonen [34] Year 2005 In March 2005 Halonen tended to the government's decision to send peacekeepers abroad only with EU authorization.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen had been cautious about the deployment of a new EU rapid reaction force without a UN mandate.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen stated in an interview with Hufvudstadsbladet that “There has been quite a bit of discussion and mostly just about who is right and who is wrong, not what situations we may find ourselves in.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

We should also talk about zinc coffins still when they are empty”.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen felt that Finland needed to have a clear idea of what kind of operations it can participate in.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, he denied that he was absolutely against or for the rapid reaction force.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[35] In May, Halonen commented on territorial violations of Finnish airspace by Russian aircraft.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to Halonen, it was a pity that the airspace violations continued, since the negotiations had already been held in the early summer of 2004.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[36] In August, Halonen expressed his wish to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his meeting at Naantali Gold Bank that Russia would ratify its border treaty with Estonia and Latvia.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[21] On May 19, Halonen announced that he would be available for the upcoming 2006 presidential election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said that the SDP delegation had visited Mäntyniemi to ask Halo to be nominated, and he had answered in the affirmative.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Following Halonen's announcement, the Left Alliance also announced that it would stand to support Halo in the presidential election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[37] Second Presidential term (2006—2012) Election campaign 2006 Halonen's support in polls exceeded the 50% threshold before the election and throughout the election campaign, so for a long time it seemed that Halonen might be elected president already in the first round of the elections.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The next most popular candidates were long-time Coalition Sauli Niinistö and centrist Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, who both had around 20% support in the first polls.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The main media interest, therefore, was in how the support for the second and third most popular candidates varies.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

As the three largest parties, the SDP, Centre and Coalition, agreed among themselves that there would be no change in presidential prerogatives during the 2006-2012 presidential term, the impeachment debate subsided for the duration of the elections.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[38] In the first round, the candidates of the three largest parties argued over, among other things, the position of the president at EU meetings.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the election exams, Halosen revealed his opinion that foreign and security policy belong to the president, economic policy and EU policy, or the so-called “new domestic policy” instead, to the Prime Minister.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Matti Vanhanen of the centre emphasised more Prime Minister-led EU policy, while Niinistö was more along Halonen's lines.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Niinistö considered that the Prime Minister and the President should represent Finland together, depending on the quality of the occasion.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Taxation issues also arose in the election, as the government had long continued its line of seeking to lower taxes.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Sauli Niinistö of the Coalition felt that the same path should be continued with even certainty.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen stressed the importance of balance so that Finns would feel good about their situation while ensuring that society has enough funds to invest in the future.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He pointed out that taxes were needed so that society has the resources for the objects it needs, including new challenges in service production and teaching, as well as research.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The president also welcomed a debate on the importance of eliminating the property tax.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[39] Halonen received 46.3% of the total votes in the first round, and Sauli Niinistö reached the second round.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Markku J. Jääskeläinen, who served as Halonen's campaign manager, announced in late 2005 that the SDP would direct campaign funds from the second round to the use of the first round of elections so that Halonen would win the election already in the first round and thus save €7 million in state funds.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

This announcement was alleged to have weaned citizens and has even been considered one of the reasons for Halonen's failure to win already in the first round.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja, he was prepared for a second round which he believed would end in victory [40].


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Chairman Eero Heinäluoma said the SDP had a plan for a second round.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The second round eventually became a surprisingly tight struggle over the popularity ratings ahead of the sitting president's election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Polls showed an increase in the number of undecided voters during the election struggle, but Halonen maintained his support reading of over 50% for a long time.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to polls conducted before the election, centrist voters would position themselves to support Halo in the second round if Vanhanen did not get through.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

A similar situation was also on the side of the Coalition.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[41] Finally Halonen defeated Niinistö in the second round with 51,8% support on 29 January 2006.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's victory came with almost the same share of the vote as in elections six years earlier.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 2000, he defeated centrist Esko Aho with a 51.6% vote share.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In his first comments since his election, Halonen promised to be an even bolder value leader.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

During the election campaign, Halonen said he found that citizens wish for a president to become an even more powerful values leader.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen criticized the Coalition's election campaign for fomenting a backlash.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen believed that labeling him as a left-wing candidate took away some of his votes.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Niinistö did better in Election Day votes than in advance voting.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Election Day votes were almost exactly split in half.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Turnout in the election rose to 77.2% compared to the first round, but remained lower than in the second round six years earlier.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[42] A year after his election victory in 2006, Halonen announced that he intended to be bolder in his second term as president, speaking out about the problems of welfare society.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He said he wanted more to play a role in the debate on issues such as neo-poverty, unemployment, welfare society services and equality for citizens.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Later in his inaugural address, Halonen stressed the importance of social justice and solidarity.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He recalled that income inequality in Finland has increased and neo-poverty has been created in the country.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[43] Shortly after the presidential election in April, Pierre Schori, a veteran Swedish politician and UN special envoy, proposed President Halo as UN Secretary-General in an opinion writing.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Schori, who wrote in a debat column for Dagens Nyheter, felt it was time for the UN to have a female Secretary-General when Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped down at the end of 2006.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In her writing, Schori listed a long list of women who would be fit for the job, but said her own favorite was President Tarja Halonen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Later, Kofi Annan also stated that the time is ripe for a female Secretary-General.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen was also named by The Washington Post newspaper as one of the preseason favourites in the upcoming secretary-general election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen himself later stated that he is not available for the job because he wants to complete the job of President of Finland before considering other career options.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In addition, Halonen confirmed that he would support an Asian candidate for UN Secretary-General when Secretary-General Kofi Annan's tenure ends at the end of 2006, as Halonen believes that the UN should follow geographical rotation.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[44] [45] In May, Mr Halonen expressed his longing for a proper civil debate on the new EU constitutional treaty before its ratification, but neither the Government nor Parliament felt it was necessary.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In June, he gave a speech to German industrial influencers and summed up the secret of Finland's success in three words, “education, education, education”.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Later in the autumn, Halonen spoke at a business people's forum in Helsinki on the occasion of the ASEM meeting, where he stressed not only education but the importance of cooperation between companies, trade unions and politicians in society.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[46] In August, Halonen organised for the first time the Presidential Forum, a discussion session on current social issues.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The Presidential Forum was held in 2006 at the Presidential Palace on two occasions.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The first forum was the competitiveness of Finnish work, and the second was competent and innovative Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[47] In September, Halonen criticized an attempt by the United States to redefine the UN article on torture to better serve the country's war on terror.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen stated that he felt the US leadership made a mistake when it tried to redefine the Geneva Convention article on torture.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said he understands the need for the United States to fight terrorism in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, but said he did not consider it acceptable for the wrong means to be used with good intentions.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said that “in the war on terror, we have to be careful that we don't become like those who don't abide by international agreements.”


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He noted that undemocracy and violations of human rights are a disease that is contagious.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's criticism of the United States again sparked debate in Finland about the state of relations between Finland and the United States.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said relations between Finland and the United States were in good health despite the fact that President George Bush has not invited him to the White House.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen noted that Bush treats him very weatherly and that he has been invited to a democracy panel organized by Bush, among other things.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[44] Year 2007 In February, Halonen announced during his state visit to Australia that he would not support the construction of a sixth nuclear power plant in Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Mr Halonen said in an interview with The Australian magazine that nuclear power can take both attention and funding away from developing renewable energy and saving electricity.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In addition, nuclear power is associated with many negative mild phenomena, for example nuclear waste.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[48] In the autumn, Halonen and Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies criticised each other on a couple of occasions.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

First in July Halonen criticized statements made by Häkämies that Finland did not participate fully in the Afghanistan mission.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva had also earlier called for Finland's presence in Afghanistan to be strengthened.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen felt that the statements about Finland's contribution were underestimating.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[49] In September, Halonen and Minister of Defence Häkämies were again at odds due to Häkämies's speech in the United States.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In a defense policy speech to American security policy experts, Häkämies had stated that Finland's biggest security policy challenge is “Russia, Russia and Russia.”


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen thinks the speech could cause some wonder about Finland's foreign policy line.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Häkämies also expressed in his speech that he thought it best suited Finland to strengthen Nato-EU defence cooperation.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen, on the other hand, has always been clearly in favour of Finland's neutrality and has firmly opposed Finland's accession to NATO.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen later stated that the speech had personal stresses of Häkämies and contradicted the common rules of the game agreed in Finnish foreign policy.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[50] In October during the nurses strike, Halonen took a stand on the issue by stating that mass layoffs are a perfectly legal and acceptable means of making the voice of nursing staff heard.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said he would comment on the matter as SAK's former legal counsel, and not so much as a sitting president.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Mr Halonen said that he believes that any means of accelerating negotiations and relating to the employment relationship can be put in place.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the same time, Halonen said she was concerned about the situation in Finnish health care, but that she also understands the position of nurses is difficult.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[51] Year 2008 In April 2008, Ilkka Kanerva, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Coalition, was forced to resign from his post due to the so-called 'text messaging stir.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

After Heather's resignation, Halonen reckoned that the uproar was a sign of a new age highlighting the requirement for weather-driven behaviour towards politicians.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He judged that politicians must adapt to the demands of the time, but saw both pros and cons in the internationally intensified call for integrity against politicians.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He feared it might, for example, increase attempts at blackmail against politicians.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

On the positive side, she saw the emphasis on gender equality and decent behaviour.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the same briefing, Halonen also spoke out against narrowing presidential prerogatives in the pending constitutional reform, saying the president brings long-term tension to decisions whose effects last longer than parliamentary or presidential terms.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[52] In August, Halonen again ignored the unanimous decision of the Council of State in the nomination case when he named Ritva Viljanen, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, for a further term in his post.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The government had put forward Ilkka Lait, head of the EU Border Inspectorate instead of Viljanen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen justified his solution to the media by saying that Viljanen had the best chance of successfully serving as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, as he had already held the position for five years and had performed his duties properly and with distinction.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to Halonen, Viljanen was the most deserving of the applicants and had not been given reasons why he could not be appointed to a second five-year term.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen denied that sex or Viljanen's demaritus had influenced his decision, instead basing his decision solely on Viljanen's merits.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The intervals between the then Minister of the Interior, Anne Holmlund and Permanent Secretary Viljanen were not the best possible, and the majority of officials in the Ministry of the Interior also considered Viljanen's re-election a setback.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[53] In September, there was a renewed dispute over presidential prerogatives when Halonen attended the EU summit in Georgia alongside Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen instead of the fresh Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The debate over the so-called “two-dish question” had been going on for a long time in Finnish politics, but it took a new twist with the Georgia summit.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The EU had indicated that the number of delegates was strictly limited to two people, so Halonen's decision to attend the meeting meant that Alexander Stubb, the foreign minister who negotiated the Georgian peace plan as OSCE president, could not fit into the Finnish delegation table in the meeting hall.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The situation was very special because the only theme of the summit was the crisis in Georgia, which the EU had coordinated in strict cooperation specifically with the OSCE, whose presidency was then held by Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, Mr Halonen and Prime Minister Vanhanen could not speak at the meeting in the role of OSCE chairman, since the chairmanship of the organisation is a personal task for the foreign minister of the country in turn.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[54] Year 2009 In March, Halonen attended the CWWL meeting of the World Council of Women Leaders and was elected its chairman.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He succeeded Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland in the position.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The CWWL is a network of leading female politicians, including heads of state and prime ministers.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen first attended a meeting of the Women's Network as its chair in Monrovia, Liberia, at the same time that a major international women leadership conference was held in the country, which Halonen co-chairs with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[55] In November Halonen was again at odds with Minister of Defence Jyri Häkämies.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said there had been an information blackout between the government and him in relation to the repatriation of additional troops that had been sent to Afghanistan to secure Afghanistan's 2009 presidential election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said the government's Foreign and Security Policy Committee initially gave the additional forces a political mandate to be in the country until elections have been held.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, Finland's Ministry of Defence had agreed to reduce the time limit together with NATO.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The awkward situation arose when Halonen publicly stated that additional ISAF troops would also remain in the country over the second round of the presidential election, although in reality a group of 100 soldiers was returning to Finland the week after the speech, i.e. before the second round of the elections.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Defence Minister Häkämies explained the confusion by the fact that the second round of the election was long stretched and the soldiers' contracts had been made to expire from the outset on 28 October on the assumption that a possible second round of elections would have already taken place at the time.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen gave Häkämies some reproach, however, stating that at least he as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces should definitely have known about it.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[56] [57] Halonen made a state visit to Syria and bestowed the highest decoration of the Finnish state: the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland with chains to the country's lifelong president Bašar al-Assad.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[58] [59] In December, Halonen stated in an interview with Finland's Kuvalehicle that he was concerned about Finnish peacekeepers in Afghanistan.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He also noted that lessons had certainly been learned from the disagreements over foreign policy over the autumn period in the president's office and the Defense Department.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen also stated that he does not support joining NATO, and that Finland's own group is the non-NATO countries of the European Union, namely Finland, Sweden, Ireland and Austria.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[60] Year 2010 In the summer of 2010, Halonen took a stand on the violent attack against the Pride procession in Helsinki.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen strongly condemned the attack on the Pride procession and said Finland's good international reputation on equality issues took a hard dent as a result of the attack.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said the attack was a very nasty thing for both the parade participants and other Finns.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[61] In August 2010, Halonen was appointed to lead the UN Sustainable Development Panel.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen chaired the panel along with South African President Jacob Zuma.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The panel was tasked with addressing sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of climate change.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The panel had to consider issues such as the green, low-carbon economy, poverty reduction and sustainable consumption, and also whether there is a need to change international structures and funding to promote sustainable growth.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The panel worked until the end of 2011, when it handed over its final report and recommendations for action to the U.N. secretary-general.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[62] In December Halonen attended the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, where he chaired the Finnish delegation.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the meeting, Halonen accepted the Millennium Torch as a reward for her merits in improving equality and the status of women.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[63] A year after the parliamentary elections in April, Halonen hoped that a promise of measures against racism and xenophobia would be recorded in the future government programme.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He pointed out that serious human rights violations occur in Finland, including discrimination, and that these situations should be taken seriously.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In his speech, Halonen also raised the role of Roma in Europe.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He said begging cannot be accepted as a profession, but that mere prohibitions and penalties could not be used to defeat poverty.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[64] In May, Halonen estimated that the media contributed to the decision to opt out of EU summits because of the so-called two-dish issue.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He also said he was disappointed that Finland did not want the president to communicate between the EU and Russia.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In an interview with Finland's Kuvalehti, Halonen said that his relations with Russia had benefited the EU as a whole and this had now come to an end because the president was no longer wanted to be included in EU summits.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to Halonen, the Finns feel that no other than the Prime Minister can be involved in EU summits.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen felt the pressure was personal and against her.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[65] In September, Halonen defended Finland's collateral claims against Greece.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen did not believe that Finland's reputation would have suffered internationally or in the European Union because of the collateral the Finns demanded from Greece.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Instead of Finland's reputation, Halonen said he was particularly concerned about the situation in the euro and Europe in the future.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Many EU countries had criticised Finland's actions in the negotiations on the Greek aid package, but Halonen thought Finland should be tough on some issues.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[66] In November, Halonen raised concerns that, according to a study by Helsingin Sanomat, people inclined to racism in the spring parliamentary elections had given their voice to basic Finns.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen and Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen said they were startled by the social climate evident in the racism-themed opinion poll by Helsingin Sanomat.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In an interview with Helsingin Sanomat, the President wished citizens and party leaders for anti-racism measures and mundane courage, which is often the first support of people affected by racism.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to the survey, more than a quarter of supporters of basic Finns identified racist traits in themselves, Halonen said that people who identify as racism in themselves have ended up voting for basic Finns.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The Finnish people were indignant about Halonen's comment and party chairman Timo Soini acknowledged the investigation as purposeful.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[67] [68] Year 2012 In January Halonen began to finish his second term as President and made his last state visits to Finland's neighbouring countries.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen made farewell visits in January to Russia and Estonia and Sweden in February.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen also attended the 40th anniversary celebrations of Queen Margaret II of Denmark's taking power in Copenhagen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The last Presidential Forum organised by Halonen was held in January at the Presidential Palace and was the future of Finland and the world from the perspective of young people.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[69] On January 30, the UN Sustainable Development Panel headed by President Halonen handed over its report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen later presented the report's findings at the UN Summit on Sustainable Development in Delhi.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[70] In February, Halonen congratulated Sauli Niinistö, his successor by telephone.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

For the first time, the sitting and newly elected president met each other after the presidential election on 6 February 2012, at the President's official residence in Mäntyniemi.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen was also linked to Greens MP Pekka Haavisto, who came second in the election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

On February 7, Halonen opened the Finnish Riksdag for the last time in Parliament.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In his inaugural address, Halonen said he was particularly concerned about citizens whose contacts tell of the financial distress and well-being disparities of individuals and families.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He said that what makes Finland a nation is precisely that everyone is taken care of, especially in times of economic austerity.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[71] In February, at Halonen's invitation, the presidents of the countries of the European Union gathered in Helsinki.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The two-day meeting was attended by the presidents of Finland, Italy, Austria, Latvia, Portugal, Germany, Slovenia and Hungary.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the end of February, Halonen congratulated Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden on the birth of their child, Princess Estelle.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

On March 1, Halonen attended the inauguration of his successor, President Sauli Niinistö, where he bid farewell to the highest officials of the parliament and the state.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

State visits President Halonen travelled to 71 countries during his presidential terms from 2000 to 2012.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The total number of state visits and other foreign trips during this period was around 300.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 2011, for example, Halonen made 22 foreign trips, four of which were state or official visits.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In addition to these, the president made 18 working visits, meeting or other trips.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Throughout his two years in office, Halonen visited Belgium the most, 28 times, as key European Union institutions are located there.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The next target countries were Russia, where Halonen visited 27 times, and the United States, which Halonen visited 26 times in total.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen was accompanied by a business delegation in more than 20 countries.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In addition to foreign countries, Halonen travelled all over Finland, where he made more than 20 domestic trips annually.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In addition to this, the president attended 70 to 80 different events and events in the metropolitan area.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Each year, Halonen gave an average of 80 to 100 speeches annually on various occasions during his tenure as president.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[72] Halonen foreign trips: [73] Asia China, 4 South Korea, 2 India, 2 Japan, 2 Armenia, 1 Azerbaijan, 1 Georgia, 1 Indonesia, 1 Israel, 1 Jordan, 1 Kazakhstan, 1 Mongolia, 1 Palestine, 1 Qatar, 1 Saudi Arabia, 1 Saudi Arabia, 1 Singapore, 1 Syria, 1 Thailand, 1 Vietnam, 1 Africa South Africa, 2 Benin, 1 Egypt, 1 Liberia, 1 Mozambique, 1 Namibia, 1 Nigeria, 1 Senegal, 1 Tanzania, 1 Europe Belgium, 28 Russia, 27 Sweden, 20 Switzerland, 19 Estonia, 18 Germany, 15 France, 8 Spain, 6 Great Britain, 6 Norway, 5 Denmark, 5 Austria, 4 Portugal, 4 Hungary, 4 Greece, 3 Latvia, 3 Lithuania, 3 Turkey, 3 Iceland, 2 Poland, 2 Czech Republic, 2 Netherlands, 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1 Bulgaria, 1 Ireland, 1 Italy, 1 Kosovo, 1 Luxembourg, 1 Romania, 1 Serbia, 1 Slovakia, 1 Slovenia, 1 Ukraine, 1 North and South America United States, 26 Chile, 2 Mexico, 2 Brazil, 1 Guatemala, 1 Canada, 1 Nicaragua, 1 Oceania Australia, 1 New Zealand, 1 Support Rates Halonen was more popular than any of the previous presidents during his term as president.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[74] Immediately after the 2000 election, Halonen's support was 52% according to opinion polls, but support soon took off, reaching 73% in December 2000.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the same December poll, only 7% were dissatisfied with Halose.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

With readings of 73 percent, Halonen was more popular than President Martti Ahtisaari once during his own presidency.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the early years of Mauno Koivisto's first term, satisfaction with the president, on the other hand, was even greater.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Particularly pleased with Halonen's activities at the start of the first term were supporters of the SDP and the Greens.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Among both, satisfaction with the president was more than 90 percent.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Among Coalition supporters, the corresponding figure was 70 per cent.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Satisfaction in the centre was also more than half, 58 percent, although centrist Esko Aho was Halonen's opposite candidate in the presidential election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to the first poll, men were clearly more critical of Halonen's activities than women, but still support for Halonen was also among men at 64%.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[75] In the following survey, conducted in the summer of 2001, support for Halonen had reached new highs.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In a survey conducted by Kuvalehti in Finland, Halonen was trusted by 81% of respondents.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The reading was then the highest confidence figure ever measured for Halonen.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Women also gave Halonen a higher score than men in this poll, but even 75% of men gave Halonen their support.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Remarkably, support for Halonen was steady across the country and among populations: the readings of staff members and labourers, as well as South and Northern Finns were almost even.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The most critical of Halo were still centrist and small-party voters.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Of them, 20 to 25 percent indicated Halonen doesn't enjoy their trust.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[76] In 2003, two years after his election, Halonen again measured better support readings.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to an opinion poll commissioned by newspaper Kaleva, 84% of Finns were then satisfied with the president, while only 6% were dissatisfied.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen's new record readings were largely due to centrist supporters taking a more positive view of the president than previously thought: 74% of centrist supporters were satisfied with the president.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Supporters of the SDP and Coalition of the other two largest parties were also more satisfied with Halose than previously thought.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[77] The following year saw a small decline in support of Halonen, but were still very high.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to a poll commissioned by the newspaper Kaleva in spring 2004, Halonen's popularity had fallen by four percentage points in six months.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

According to the survey, 83% of Finns were still satisfied with Halonen's activities.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The proportion of people dissatisfied with Halose was still down, making just five per cent in the poll.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Ten per cent of respondents were neutral about Halonen's activities.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Most satisfied with Halo were supporters of the Left Alliance, 97% of whom supported Halo.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the SDP and Green electorate, support was 94%.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, the proportion of those very satisfied had dropped from 70 per cent to 58 per cent in the SDP.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

81% of the city centre supporters and 75% of the Coalition were satisfied with Halo.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Among the farming population, the president was supported by 63%, compared with 87% among the working population in the survey.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[78] In the run-up to the election in 2005, Halonen's popularity dropped from over 80% satisfaction to 71%.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In connection with the 2006 presidential election, Halonen's popularity sagged to 65%, but went on a boom again after the election.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

During his second term as president, Halonen's endorsement still remained good, but did not reach their first-term highs.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In 2008, according to a survey commissioned by Kaleva, 70% of Finns were satisfied with the president, 21% were very satisfied and 49% were quite satisfied.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[79] In the last Halonen support figures before the end of the second term, support numbers had returned again to close to their first season high.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In its second season, Halonen's popularity had been declining all the time since 2007, but took off again in 2010 on a boom.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

84% of the people then thought that Halonen had succeeded very well or quite well in the role of President.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The number of dissatisfied was still small, but much higher in the first season, as the success of Halonen was considered very or rather bad by 12%.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen was considered in a 2010 poll to have done better than before as a foreign policy leader.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

More than 70% agreed that President Halonen had been very successful or fairly successful in foreign policy.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Coalition supporters in particular had been dissatisfied with Halonen's actions, with only 65% of them viewing Halonen as successful as president and less than half, 45%, seeing Halo as a successful foreign policy leader.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In June 2010, Coalition members were also more satisfied with Halose with 78% giving at least a fairly good overall rating to Halonen and 63% saying his foreign policy had been successful.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[80] Governments appointed by Halonen during the Prime MinisterNeli JäätteenMäki2003JäätteenMäkimatti Vanhanen2003—2007Vanhanen iMatti Vanhanen2007—2010Vanhanen IIMARI Kiviniemi2010— 2011Kiviniemijyrki Katainen2011—2014After the presidential terms in November 2011, it was reported in the media that President Halonen had refused the position of Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe offered to him.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

A group of European politicians had been making the case for whether Halonen might have enough support for the job when the term of former commissioner Thomas Hammarberg ends.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Adequate support apparently was found, but Halonen declined the position in the fall of 2011.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

President Halonen was unwilling to commit to the task, which would last six years and require a move to Strasbourg, France.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[81] On March 8, 2012, a week after his presidential term ended, Halonen gave his first long television interview by appearing on a program with Hjallis hosted by Hjallis Harkimo.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen analyzes his own 12-year presidential term on the show.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

She noted that it was not always easy to be the first woman president, as many things and traditions in the Presidential Institution were tailored specifically for men and required reform.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen also spoke of his intentions to apply to be a member of the SDP and join the church in Kallio congregation.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

He also took a stand in the dispute between Timo Rädy, president of the Automotive and Transport Industry Employees Union, and Hilkka Ahteen, the union's communications manager.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said the incident was ruining the reputation of the entire trade union movement and said that no one in the workplace should tolerate anything.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

She also stated that, in her experience, the trade union movement has never been “any outpost of feminism”, but there is still too much macho culture involved in the movement.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[82] Halonen stated in February 2012 that he was possibly interested in the position of Director General of the International Labour Organisation ILO.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Later, Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen stated that the Finnish government would support Halo for the job if he wants to do so.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

However, Halonen later stated that he was not interested in the venue due to the fact that the trade union movement supports ILO Deputy Director General Guy Ryder for the position and Halonen wishes to support the decision of the trade union movement in the case.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[83] In March, Mr Halonen announced that he would assume the chairmanship of the UN Working Group on Population Issues offered to him in February.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The working group will be co-chaired by Joaquim Chissano, the former President of Mozambique.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The main task of the task force is to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights issues worldwide.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The task force began operations in the summer of 2012.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[84] In March 2012, on Minna Canth Day, President Halonen struck the first commemorative coin of equality and tolerance at the Mint of Finland.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

At the time of the announcement, Halonen also commented on Finnair's bonus statement by stating that in jobs a fair share of earnings and responsibility falls on everyone.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[85] A documentary film has been made about Halonen's presidential term and premiered on 30 March 2012.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

The film is called Madam President.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[86] In September 2014, Halonen was reported to be preparing to move to the United States, where she will start working as a teacher at Harvard University.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In spring 2015 Halonen will start teaching international politics and especially sustainable development.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[87] Political views Internal politics During the 2006 presidential election, Halonen received criticism, particularly from conservative candidates, Timo Soini of the primary Finns and Bjarne Kallis of the Christian Democrats.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

As a matter of time in parliament, there was a law approving fertilization treatments for same-sex couples, which Halonen stood to support.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen also issued a statement stating that the concept of an ideal family needs to follow its time.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[88] Halonen has been an active driver of the rights of sexual minorities for a long time.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

In the early 1980s Halonen worked as chairman of Sexual Equality SETA ry, Finland's most prominent NGO advocating LGBT rights.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

She advocates the Equal Marriage Act and has stated that the most important thing for a child's development is a safe home, not that the child has both a father and a mother.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[89] Halonen said in an interview with Hjallis Harkimo on 8 March 2012 that he was concerned, like many other Finns, about the rise in popularity and intolerance among Persian Finns in Finland, but that he was also glad that the discontent became apparent at the ballot box and not on the streets.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Pekka Haavisto's rise to the second round in the 2012 presidential election he saw as a protest against the rise of basic Finns.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Halonen said he was surprised how many of Sauli Niinistö's supporters voted for this precisely on the grounds that Niinistö is heterosexual.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

She also raised the lesbian rumours directed at her herself by stating that her Seta chairmanship is still an awfully big deal to many, despite being heterosexual.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

[90] Halonen was not a member of the Lutheran Church of Finland or any other religious community during his term as president, but is not an atheist.


Question: What party was Finland's first female president?

Tarja Halonen

Among other things, he has been active in the Christian Setlement Union.