Raimo Vistbacka Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Valtiopäiväneuvos (Counselor of Parliament)
Raimo Vistbacka
Office2:Minister of Transport
Primeminister2:Harri Holkeri
Term Start2:1 October 1989
Term End2:28 August 1990
Successor2:Ilkka Kanerva
Predecessor2:Pekka Vennamo
Office:Member of the Parliament of Finland for Vaasa
Term Start:1987
Term End:2011
Office3:Leader of the Finns Party
Term Start3:1995
Term End3:1997
Successor3:Timo Soini
Birth Date:19 October 1945
Occupation:Politician, police commissioner
Party:Blue Reform (2017–)
Finns Party (1995–2017)
Finnish Rural Party (until 1995)

Raimo Viljam Vistbacka (born 19 October 1945) is a Finnish politician and former member of the Finnish Parliament. Vistbacka has a master's degree in law (varatuomari) and he was the rural police chief (nimismies) in Alajärvi in 1982–1996. He was first elected to the parliament in 1987, representing the Finns Party's predecessor, the Finnish Rural Party. When the Finns Party was founded in 1995, Vistbacka became the party's first MP. He retired from the parliament in April 2011.

In 2010 Vistbacka said that he hopes that the Finns Party will not have more than 10–14 MPs (the total number of MPs in Finland is 200). Vistbacka believed that a bigger parliamentary group cannot be controlled.[1]

Vistbacka left the Finns Party in 2017 and joined the Blue Reform. He was one of the Blue Reform candidates in the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election[2] but was not elected.

References

  1. Web site: Lauri Heikkilä puhuu! . Tähti . Tuomas . December 15, 2018 . tuomastahti.wordpress.com . October 7, 2019 . fi.
  2. Web site: Raimo Vistbacka ehdolle eduskuntavaaleihin . Hantula . Riia . Yleisradio oy . March 5, 2019 . October 7, 2019 . fi.

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