Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 11 April 2023 |
Constituency: | Finland |
Term Start1: | 27 April 2015 |
Term End1: | 1 July 2019 |
Constituency1: | Finland |
Birth Name: | Pirkko Anneli Ruohonen-Lerner |
Birth Date: | 6 February 1957 |
Birth Place: | Hyvinkää, Finland |
Party: | Finland Finns Party European Conservatives and Reformists |
Alma Mater: | University of Helsinki |
Office2: | Member of the Finnish Parliament |
Termend2: | 6 May 2015 |
Termstart2: | 21 March 2007 |
Constituency2: | Uusimaa |
Predecessor: | Laura Huhtasaari |
Predecessor1: | Sampo Terho |
Pirkko Anneli Ruohonen-Lerner (born 6 February 1957) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Finns Party, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists.
She was elected to Finnish Parliament in 2007 and served as a member of parliament until 2015. She was the chair of the party's parliamentary group from 2011 to 2014. In April 2015, Ruohonen-Lerner succeeded Sampo Terho in the European Parliament when Terho was elected to the Parliament of Finland.[1]
In her political career, she has served as a member of the council of the municipality of Myrskylä from 1985 to 1988 (then with the National Coalition Party), and as a member of the council of the city of Porvoo since 1996.
She returned to the European Parliament on 11 April 2023 following the resignation of Laura Huhtasaari.[2]