Timo Soini

<h2 id="early-life-and-education">Early life and education</h2>
Timo Soini worked for the food company Linkosuo Oy for two summers in 1981 and 1982 and was Secretary-General and Chairman of the Kehittyvän Suomen Nuorten Liitto (Youth League of Developing Finland) from 1983 to 1992. He graduated with a Master of Political Science from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Helsinki/auoyYhDV">University of Helsinki</a> in 1988, majoring in political theory. He wrote his master's thesis on <a href="/facts/Populism/J0EXt6XK">populism</a> and the <a href="/facts/Finnish_Rural_Party/Gvm1zSgA">Finnish Rural Party</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a>
His military rank is <a href="/facts/Corporal/spJKfn8E">Corporal</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a>

<h2 id="personal-life">Personal life</h2>
He is a devout <a href="/facts/Catholic_Church/rJ4F4gqH">Catholic</a>, which he became as a result of his experiences on his many trips to <a href="/facts/Ireland/35vYxXdP">Ireland</a>. (In Finland, the Catholic Church is a small minority church having merely 11,000 members.)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> He was also influenced by the pope's <a href="/facts/Anti-communism/bJuolzxo">anti-communism</a> and <a href="/facts/Criticism_of_atheism/yBNxpM6a">anti-atheism</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a> 
Soini has also publicly announced that he is a cordial friend of the state of <a href="/facts/Israel/dEe3IcaY">Israel</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a> According to the <a href="/facts/BBC/qFateIz8">BBC</a>, Soini is "a die-hard supporter" of <a href="/facts/English_football/TI2FFcAP">English football</a> club <a href="/facts/Millwall_FC/Dk339Wlq">Millwall FC</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a> 
As of 2011, Soini lived in the <a href="/facts/Kaitaa/bLUxevU0">Kaitaa</a> district of <a href="/facts/Espoo/0SbDwKHH">Espoo</a>, in the <a href="/facts/Greater_Helsinki/n8jnD78L">Greater Helsinki</a> area, residing in the same apartment block since 1968.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a> He is married and has two children.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a>

<h2 id="political-career">Political career</h2>

Soini was a member of the <a href="/facts/Finnish_Rural_Party/Gvm1zSgA">Finnish Rural Party</a>, and was its secretary-general from 1992. After the Rural Party dissolved following the March 1995 elections, Soini and two others filed paperwork, in mid-May 1995, to create a new political party, initially to be called the Pure Finnish Association. It was, instead, founded as the True Finns Party (later the Finns Party) and two years later Soini succeeded <a href="/facts/Raimo_Vistbacka/SSW6Pbbq">Raimo Vistbacka</a> as chairman, a position he has held ever since. He ran for a seat in parliament in the spring <a href="/facts/1999_Finnish_parliamentary_election/1dj0BPd6">1999 elections</a> but lost. He was first elected to the parliament in <a href="/facts/2003_Finnish_parliamentary_election/HaElzmVe">2003</a>. Soini was his party's candidate in the <a href="/facts/2006_Finnish_presidential_election/XrvTz65h">2006 Presidential election</a>, finishing fifth out of the eight candidates in the first round, with a vote share of 3.4%. In March 2008, Soini wrote an autobiographical book called Maisterisjätkä, published by <a href="/facts/Tammi_(publishing_company)/v6lkTehA">Tammi</a>.
In 2011 he visited the party conference of <a href="/facts/UKIP/U7YPcmSj">UKIP</a>, the British political party with which he has had a long friendship. He was also invited to speak at the UK Conservative Party Conference in 2011 and again spoke at the UKIP National Conference 2013 in London on 20 September.

<h3>2011 parliamentary election</h3>
The Finns Party obtained 39 seats in the <a href="/facts/2011_Finnish_parliamentary_election/bgqqnqLS">2011 election</a>, making them the third-largest party. Soini received 43 437 personal votes (1.5% of all votes), the highest amount of all of the candidates.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a> Soini managed to raise the popularity of the party from 4.1% to 19.1% in four years. <a href="/facts/Helsingin_Sanomat/nQeShc7P">Helsingin Sanomat</a> opined in an editorial that Soini "rewrote the electoral history books".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22">22</a> According to the <a href="/facts/BBC/qFateIz8">BBC</a>, behind Soini's success was "brain, wit and charisma".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23">23</a> A <a href="/facts/University/skaJt2Io">university</a> <a href="/facts/Professor/JNqot4sU">professor</a> and a <a href="/facts/Political_analyst/Gqy5EoRX">political analyst</a>, Mr. Jan Sundberg, pointed to Soini's <a href="/facts/Public_speaking/MQejeEC0">oratorical</a> skills and ability to appeal to common people and make complicated things look easy.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24">24</a> The election result was also referred to as "shocking" and "exceptional".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25">25</a> During the government negotiations following the election the Finns Party decided against participating in <a href="/facts/Jyrki_Katainen%27s_cabinet/yCdmFxt8">Katainen</a>'s coalition cabinet, citing greatly differing stances on the EU, especially regarding bailouts for debt-ridden euro countries.

<h3>2015 parliamentary election</h3>
The Finns Party obtained 38 seats in the <a href="/facts/2015_Finnish_parliamentary_election/CAXjmEVb">2015 election</a>, becoming second biggest party after Center Party. Coalition negotiations began on 8 May between Center Party, Finns Party and National Coalition Party.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26">26</a> Soini joined the government as <a href="/facts/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Finland/Cb6wBlww">Deputy Prime Minister</a> and <a href="/facts/Minister_for_Foreign_Affairs_(Finland)/c9gKMkB5">Minister for Foreign Affairs</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27">27</a>

<h3>Positions held</h3>
His <a href="/facts/Curriculum_vitae/pm2Avkvs">curriculum vitae</a> on the European Parliament webpage and the Finnish Parliament webpage list the following:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28">28</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29">29</a>

<ul><li>Pre-university school-leaving certificate (1981)</li>
<li>Master of Political Science (1988)</li>
<li>Youth League of Developing Finland, special correspondent of Suomen Uutiset (1983–89)</li>
<li>Vice-chair, Finnish Rural Party (1989–92)</li>
<li>Party Secretary, Finnish Rural Party (1992–95)</li>
<li>Chair, The Finns Party (1997–present)</li>
<li>Member of the Finnish Parliament (2003–2009, 2011–2019)</li>
<li>Member of the European Parliament (2009–2011)</li>
<li>Member of Espoo City Council (since 2001)</li>
<li>Member of Espoo City Board (2007–08)</li>
<li>Member, Legal Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament (2003–07); substitute member, Grand Committee of the Finnish Parliament (2003–07); member, Grand Committee of the Finnish Parliament (2007–09); substitute member, Legal Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament (2007–09)</li>
<li>Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament (2011–2015); substitute member, Grand Committee of the Finnish Parliament (2011–2015)</li>
<li>Deputy Prime Minister (2015–2017)</li>
<li>Minister for Foreign Affairs (2015–2019)</li></ul>
<h2 id="relationship-with-the-united-states">Relationship with the United States</h2>
See also: <a href="/facts/Finland%E2%80%93United_States_relations/Wm1TvJov">Finland–United States relations</a>

He has frequently visited the United States and received invitations to several establishment meetings, such as <a href="/facts/National_Prayer_Breakfast/lP2rTCrB">National Prayer Breakfast</a> hosted by President <a href="/facts/Barack_Obama/76wUMgL1">Barack Obama</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30">30</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31">31</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32">32</a> He has also commented on European affairs in the American conservative media, for example on <a href="/facts/Fox_News/jyP1hm2q">Fox News</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33">33</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34">34</a> In Finland Soini has also been seen hosting senior American politicians, such as the conservative former presidential candidate <a href="/facts/Michele_Bachmann/RgRhKmcH">Michele Bachmann</a> in April 2014.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35">35</a>

<h2 id="views">Views</h2>
<h3>Climate change</h3>
In January 2011, Soini called for Finland to quit all international <a href="/facts/Climate_change/rEN4BDE7">climate change</a> agreements. According to him, emission trading is a major financial crime in Europe. The <a href="/facts/European_Union_Emission_Trading_Scheme/tVh9TLFz">European Union Emission Trading Scheme</a> was introduced in 2005. Soini wanted to cancel all recent additions to the energy and environmental taxes. He used the expression: "Green taxes are like shooting yourself in the foot". Soini was criticised for acting as a brake on climate change solutions by MP Oras Tynkkynen, a <a href="/facts/Green_League/a6hhDe9y">Green</a> focusing on climate policy, and for calling Finland the <a href="/facts/North_Korea/Q41laakP">North Korea</a> of climate policy by MP Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, a <a href="/facts/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Finland/neRwsrs3">Social Democrat</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36">36</a>
According to Soini, he worked on the party's climate policy program for one and a half years. The published program was copied almost word by word from a year old document of the Metal Union written by Matti Putkonen, a former Metal Union employee now working for the Finns Party.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37">37</a>

<h3>Religion</h3>
Soini is a practising <a href="/facts/Catholic_Church/rJ4F4gqH">Catholic</a>. His views on religious and moral issues include opposition to abortion, homosexuality and the ordination of women as priests.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38">38</a> Soini converted to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism in 1988.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39">39</a> Catholicism is a religious minority in Finland, with only about 0.3% of <a href="/facts/Catholic_Church_in_Finland/FrweszSE">residents identifying as Catholic</a>.

<h3>Abortion</h3>

In May 2018, Soini, as a Catholic, criticized the <a href="/facts/Thirty-sixth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_Bill_2018/36wJCR3m">Irish abortion referendum</a>, despite the <a href="/facts/Sipil%C3%A4_Cabinet/xwFLptTE">Sipilä Cabinet</a> and the official position of the <a href="/facts/Finnish_government/MSm64Cco">Finnish government</a> to support <a href="/facts/Abortion_rights/KKXDwMMR">abortion rights</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40">40</a>

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_foreign_ministers_in_2017/CELK4Th6">List of foreign ministers in 2017</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_current_foreign_ministers/YIJEGyFX">List of current foreign ministers</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

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<ul><li>(in Finnish) <a href="http://timosoini.fi/">Official website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96666/TIMO_SOINI_home.html">Profile on the European Parliament's official website</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:2">"Helsingin Sanomat – International Edition – Home". Archived from the original on 23 April 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2009. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110423083049/http://www.hs.fi/english/article/bSUNDAY+NIGHTb+True+Finns+and+Greens+advance+in+European+Parliament+elections+as+big+parties+suffer/1135246579175" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110423083049/http://www.hs.fi/english/article/bSUNDAY+NIGHTb+True+Finns+and+Greens+advance+in+European+Parliament+elections+as+big+parties+suffer/1135246579175</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:6">"Vaalit 2011". Yle Uutiset. Archived from the original on 28 May 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130528074842/http://yle.fi/vaalit/tulospalvelu/2011/uusimaa_ehdokkaiden_aanimaarat_2.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130528074842/http://yle.fi/vaalit/tulospalvelu/2011/uusimaa_ehdokkaiden_aanimaarat_2.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:8">Soini announces he will not continue at Finns Party helm Yle News on 5 March 2017. Retrieved on 12 March 2017. <a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/soini_announces_he_will_not_continue_at_finns_party_helm/9492639" target="_blank">http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/soini_announces_he_will_not_continue_at_finns_party_helm/9492639</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:10">"Jussi Halla-aho hämmentävän viikon jälkeen: "Ystävyyssuhteet kovalla koetuksella"". 16 June 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017. <a href="http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005258005.html" target="_blank">http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005258005.html</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:12">Timo Soini (1988). "Populismi – politiikkaa ja polttomerkki: SMP:n roolinmuutos". University of Helsinki. <a href="https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/1ea1c463-3c52-4b69-bc1e-11a86a2bd124/content" target="_blank">https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/1ea1c463-3c52-4b69-bc1e-11a86a2bd124/content</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:14">Note: Finland has universal male conscription, with most men serving either six, nine or twelve months and then transferring to the Reserve. <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:33">Helsingin Sanomat, 4 November 2011, 'Soini esitteli Kreikka-kantojaan Fox Newsin haastattelussa' <a href="http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/a1305548685194" target="_blank">http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/a1305548685194</a> <a href="#fnref:33" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:34">"Video: Finns Timo Soini on Fox News, talks about EU Bank bail out for Greece". Archived from the original on 6 November 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111106235255/http://europenews.dk/en/node/49227" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20111106235255/http://europenews.dk/en/node/49227</a> <a href="#fnref:34" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:35">"Erikoisen mukava päivä". Timo Soini. 24 April 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2015. <a href="http://timosoini.fi/2014/04/erikoisen-mukava-paiva" target="_blank">http://timosoini.fi/2014/04/erikoisen-mukava-paiva</a> <a href="#fnref:35" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:36">Soini vaatii energia- ja ilmastopolitiikkaan täysremonttia yle 28.1.2011 (in Finnish) <a href="http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/talous_ja_politiikka/2011/01/soini_vaatii_energia-_ja_ilmastopolitiikkaan_taysremonttia_2323671.html" target="_blank">http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/talous_ja_politiikka/2011/01/soini_vaatii_energia-_ja_ilmastopolitiikkaan_taysremonttia_2323671.html</a> <a href="#fnref:36" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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