Suvi-Anne Siimes

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Sini Maaria Suvi-Anne Siimes (born 1 June 1963, Helsinki) is a Finnish politician. She was the chairman of the Finnish Left Alliance 1998—2006 and has been a member of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) since 1999. She is also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a delegate for Finland in the Nordic Council. Under the two Cabinets of Paavo Lipponen (1995—2003), Siimes served as the Coordinate Minister for Culture (1995—1999) and as the Minister of Finance (1999—2003). From 1995 to 2000, she was a deputy member of the European Union Committee on Regional Development.

In March 2006 she suddenly resigned the Left Alliance, stating she didn't want to support the election of the so-called former Taistolaiset to Parliament of Finland (the Taistolaiset were former Moscow-supporting minority wing of the Communist Party of Finland, named after their famous former leader Taisto Sinisalo — whose first name means "a battle" or "a fight"). In the book related to her departure from the party, she concludes herself never to have been a "socialist of any kind".

Siimes has a licentiate degree in economics. She has published two books.

[edit] Publications

• Amerikan päiväkirja ja muita kirjoituksia (2000)
• Politiikan piilokuvat (2002)
• Politiikan julkisivu (2007)

[edit] External links

• Suvi-Anne Siimes at the Eduskunta.