Party meetings | Drama in the assembly: the minister was left out of the party leadership with a difference of 0.4 votes

The Prime Minister’s Party the coalition elected its new vice presidents at the party meeting on Sunday. A first-term member of parliament from Kuopio was dramatically chosen as the new face Karoliina Partanen.

Partanen got 0.4 more votes than the third-term member of parliament, Minister of Science and Culture from Vantaa Sari Multala. Multala was thus not elected to the party leadership.

The Minister of Municipalities and Regions was elected from among the currently sitting vice-chairmen for the next term Anna-Kaisa Ikonen and the Minister of Defense Antti Häkkänen.

In the vice-president race, Häkkänen got 603.2 votes, Ikonen 566.2 votes and Partanen 409.4. Multala’s number of votes was exactly 409.

Partial votes are due to the fact that a few representatives have a rare mandate in the party meeting.

There are a certain number of seats for voting party assembly representatives. They are first distributed between district organizations and member unions and then to local associations in proportion to their personal members, says Online news.

Each local association has the right to one representative. But if the association “does not get any party meeting representative in the manner mentioned above or in the manner stipulated in the rules of the district organization, the actual member (association, ed. note) may always send a party meeting representative who has one-fifth of the vote to the party meeting”.

Candidate There were also MPs from the Uusimaa electoral district in the vice-presidential race Jarno Limnéll.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, fourth-term Member of Parliament Elina Valtonen resigns from the position of vice-president. He announced in March that he would not apply for an extension.

In an interview with Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomit on Saturday, Valtonen did not comment on possible plans to run for party chairman, but said it was a question for the future.