Matti Ahde

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Matti Ahde
Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
In office
8 May 1987 – 1 February 1989
Preceded byIlkka Suominen
Succeeded byKalevi Sorsa
Minister of the Interior[1]
In office
19 February 1982 – 30 September 1983
Prime MinisterKalevi Sorsa
Preceded byEino Uusitalo
Succeeded byMatti Luttinen
Minister of Environment
In office
1 October 1983 – 30 April 1987
Prime MinisterKalevi Sorsa
Succeeded byKaj Bärlund
Member of the Parliament of Finland
In office
16 March 1970 – 1990
In office
16 March 2003 – 17 April 2011
Personal details
Born(1945-12-23)23 December 1945
Oulu, Finland
Died20 December 2019(2019-12-20) (aged 73)
Helsinki, Finland
Political partySocial Democratic Party
SpouseHilkka Ahde

Matti Allan Ahde (23 December 1945 – 20 December 2019) was a Finnish politician from the Social Democratic Party.

Ahde was born in Oulu. He was a member of the parliament from 1970 to 1990, when he left to become CEO of the state monopoly Veikkaus. Ahde held minister posts in Sorsa's cabinets 1982–1987 and was elected Speaker of the Parliament in 1987.[2] He was replaced as the speaker by Kalevi Sorsa in 1989 when Sorsa stepped down from Holkeri's cabinet to make the position available for party chairman Pertti Paasio.

Ahde quit as CEO of Veikkaus in 2001 and was re-elected to the parliament in 2003.

On 20 December 2019, Ahde died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Helsinki, Finland.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Council of State – Ministers of Interior". Valtioneuvosto.fi. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Edustajamatrikkeli". Eduskunta.
  3. ^ "SDP:n pitkäaikainen kansanedustaja Matti Ahde on kuollut" [Long-term SDP Member of Parliament Matti Ahde has passed away]. Yle (in Finnish). 20 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Syöpä vei ministeri Matti Ahteen". Iltalehti (in Finnish). 29 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
Political offices
Preceded by Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
1987–1989
Succeeded by

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