Photo: Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva Mari Kiviniemi was elected leader of the Centre Party at the party conference in Lahti on June 12.
Her name is Mari Kiviniemi and she will head the government of Finland for the next ten months. She received a convincing mandate from her Centre Party, which she also leads as chairperson. Despite the forthcoming elections, major hiccups in government policy are not anticipated, writes Kyösti Karvonen, managing editor of the newspaper Kaleva.