Image compilation | Stubb's road to the presidency went through golf courses, Brussels, government and Florence

The coalition's presidential candidate Alexander Stubb arrived on Tuesday for the HS election exam in Suvilahti's Kattilahalli. Picture: Ville Maali / HS

Alexander Stubb, together with his wife Suzanne Innes-Stubb, was excited for the votes of the 1st round in Helsinki on January 28. Picture: Kalle Koponen / HS

Stubb, who works at the EU University in Florence, in a city silenced by the corona pandemic in 2020. Picture: Marco Benvenuti / EUI

Alexander Stubb in the study of his home in Espoo in March 2020. Picture: Outi Pyhäranta / HS

President Martti Ahtisaari arrived for the National Day service at Helsinki Cathedral in February 2016. Prime Minister Juha Sipilä and Finance Minister Alexander Stubb followed. Picture: Rio Gandara / HS

Finance Minister Stubb (left), Prime Minister Sipilä and Minister of Justice and Labor Lindström at a press conference on the social contract in Kesäranta in August 2015. Picture: Juhani Niiranen / HS

Prime Minister Juha Sipilä's government on a greeting visit to the Presidential Palace in May 2015. In the picture, President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö shakes hands with Finance Minister Alexander Stubb. Picture: Rio Gandara / HS

Board negotiations in 2015. Pictured are Timo Soini (ps), Juha Sipilä (center) and Aleksander Stubb (cok). Picture: Jukka Gröndahl / HS

Stubb, who stepped down as chairman of the coalition in June 2016, was moved to tears when he thanked his father Göran Stubb and his wife Suzanne Innes-Stubb in his speech. Picture: Ville-Veikko Kaakinen / HS

The outgoing chairman of the coalition, Alexander Stubb, and chairman candidate Elina Lepomäki (now Valtonen) at the Lappeenranta party meeting in 2016. Picture: Ville-Veikko Kaakinen / HS

The new chairman of the coalition, Petteri Orpo, had just learned that he had won the chairmanship race at the Lappeenranta party meeting on June 11, 2016. Alexander Stubb in the background. Picture: Ville-Veikko Kaakinen / HS

Prime Minister Stubb received German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the pouring rain outside Smolna in March 2015. Picture: Markus Jokela / HS

Finance Minister Antti Rinne (left) and Prime Minister Alexander Stubb in 2014. Picture: Pekka Elomaa

Prime Minister Alexander Stubb at his official residence in Kesäranta in August 2014. Picture: Sabrina Bqain / HS

Chairman of the coalition Jyrki Katainen (left) and European election candidate Alexander Stubb at the party's election supervisors meeting on May 25, 2014. Picture: Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Magazine photo

The coalition's European election candidate Alexander Stubb aired the Lions' goal at the 2014 European election supervisors in Bio Rex, Helsinki. Finland played in the Ice Hockey World Cup final against Russia in Minsk. Picture: Kaisa Rautaheimo / HS

The Minister of European and Foreign Trade met with Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton at the US Embassy in Finland in June 2012. Picture: Viena Kytöjoki / Newspaper photo

The new foreign minister, Alexander Stubb, after the press conference held on April 4 in Katajanokka. Picture: Ville Männikkö

On April 1, 2008, the chairman of the coalition Jyrki Katainen introduced the new foreign minister of Finland, Ilkka Kanerva's successor, Alexander Stubb. Picture: Juhani Niiranen / HS

MEP Stubb in his office in Strasbourg in July 2004. Picture: Jussi Nukari / Magazine photo

Alexander Stubb aired his entry into the European Parliament in June 2004. On the left was his wife Suzanne Innes-Stubb and on the right was aired by campaign manager Kirsi Piha. Picture: Seppo Solmela

Alexander Stubb, Suzanne Innes-Stubb and the family's children Emilie and Oliver Stubb in 2005. Picture: Erkki Raskinen / IS

Alexander Stubb in 1987. Picture: Sanoma's archive

Alexander Stubb played golf in Espoo in 1987. Father Göran was the caddy. Picture: Hannu Lindroos

Göran and Alexander Stubb at the Helsinki ice rink on August 7, 1970. Alexander is startled by goalkeeper Mauri Kaukokar's mask. Picture: Hannu Lindroos