Anssi Joutsenlahti

Anssi Joutsenlahti is a pensioned vicar and a member of the parliament of Finland. He became elected a MP on 17 April 2011.

Background

He had been a MP earlier time 1979-1983 and 1983–1987, when some of the supporters of the True Finns were the supporters of the Rural Party of Finland (1961–2003) , the earlier Small Peasants Party of Finland (1959–1961). Anssi Joutsenlahti has promised to donated all his pays received from being a MP to the caregivers.

Anssi Joutsenlahti serves in the local government, in the city council of Kankaanpää as a second deputy chairman. He also works in some occasion as a priest too. He has run 75 times marathon representing the Kankaanpään Urheilijat (the Sporsmen of Kankaanpää) sports club.^[1]

Career

• vicar in Jämijärvi and Jurva Evangelical Lutheran parishes ^[1]
• acting chaplain in the Kankaanpää, Noormarkku and Middle-Pori Evangelical Lutheran parishes ^[1]
• treasurer of the society of the Karhoinen cottage water way rehabilitation society (Karhoismajan vesireittien kunnostusyhdistys) ^[1]
• vice member of the board of the Vatajankosken Sähkö Oy (The electric and heat producing company of the Northern Satakunta) ^[2]

Sources

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Official website" (in Finnish). http://www.anssijoutsenlahti.fi/index.php?sivu=taustani. 
2. ^ http://www.vatajankoski.fi/default.asp?section=5359