Paavo Lipponen

Prime Minister of Finland

Paavo Tapio Lipponen 23 April 1941 Turtola, Finland

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13 April 1995 – 17 April 2003

Finnish politician Paavo Tapio Lipponen (pronounced  ( listen ) ; born 23 April 1941) is a Finnish politician and former reporter. He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005. He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 to 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6.7% of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party had ever received in Finnish Presidential elections at the time. Lipponen is currently the oldest living former Prime Minister of Finland.