Mika Raatikainen Explained

Mika Raatikainen
Office:Member of the Finnish Parliament
for Helsinki
Term Start:4 July 2014
Term End:16 April 2019
Predecessor:Jussi Halla-aho
Term Start1:24 April 2019
Term End1:2 July 2019
Birth Date:1961 11, df=y
Birth Place:Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Nationality:Finnish
Party:The Finns Party

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

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

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

References

  1. Web site: Valitut ehdokkaat Helsingin vaalipiiri . Ministry of Justice . 24 April 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150427143010/http://tulospalvelu.vaalit.fi/E-2015/fi/val01.html . 27 April 2015 .
  2. Web site: Jussi Halla-aho aloittaa kansanedustajan työt heinäkuussa, jatkaa siihen asti Brysselissä . Yle . 22 April 2019 . 26 April 2019.
  3. Web site: Mika Raatikainen . Eduskunta. 24 April 2015.
  4. Web site: Halla-ahon eduskuntapaikan perijän mukaan Suomeen saa tulla töihin . Helsingin Sanomat . 27 July 2014 . 24 April 2014.