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]