Biography

May 30, 1962 · Rauma, Finland

1.81 m

He is a conservative populist politician in Finland.

He dislikes to be categorized in right-wing or left-wing. He says that he is defending common people in Finland.

He was running for Finlands president in 2006.

Member of Finnish parliament 2003-2009 and 2011-2019.

Everyone knew that the Communist dictatorship was a harmful system, yet we talked about it bringing peace and prosperity. Now we use this same doublespeak when talking about the EU.

The EU structure is very Catholic. The commission president behaves like an unelected pope, the commissioners are his cardinals, while there are 83,000 pages of regulation that it likes to think are the gospel. I already have my church, so I don't need another religion in Brussels.

It may be good if the EU gets so big that it can no longer function - it will be like a rat with its hypothalamus removed, who keeps eating until it explodes.

Regarding the Finnish government's push to ratify the EU's draft constitution in Parliament, even though two of the EU's founding countries have rejected it: "It is like wanting to display a dead elephant at the zoo."