Sampo Terho, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sampo Terho

Finnish politician

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1977

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Sampo Terho

  • Sampo Terho (Born 20 September 1977) is a Finnish politician who served as Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports.
  • He is the chairman of Suomalaisuuden Liitto and was earlier a Member of the European Parliament. Terho graduated from the University of Tampere in 2003 with a Master's degree in Finnish History, and has worked as a researcher in the Finnish National Defence University.
  • He has written a book on the history of capital punishment.
  • Terho has also served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
  • Terho received the second largest number of votes on the Finns Party (then known as the True Finns) electoral list in the 2009 European Parliament election.
  • He succeeded Timo Soini in the European Parliament when Soini was elected to Parliament of Finland in the 2011 election.
  • He was re-elected in the 2014 election. Terho participated in the 2015 parliamentary election and was elected to the parliament with 10,067 personal votes.
  • His term in the European Parliament ended on 27 April, when Terho officially accepted the seat in the Finnish Parliament.
  • He subsequently became the chairman of the Finns Party's parliamentary group.
  • On 5 May 2017, he started as the Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports in Sipilä Cabinet.In 2017, Terho ran against Jussi Halla-aho for party chairmanship, but ultimately lost the chairmanship election at the party convention on 10 June.
  • On 13 June, Terho and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the New Alternative parliamentary group which was turned into a new party known as Blue Reform.
  • After the split, the New Alternative group took the Finns Party's place in the cabinet and Terho continued as a Minister. In 2019 parliamentary election, Terho was a candidate of the Blue Reform in Uusimaa constituency, but was not elected.Terho wrote a chamber music piece, of around five minutes long, to celebrate Finland's 100 years of independence, for the Kuopio city orchestra.
  • The piece is arranged by Terho with conductor Heikki Elo, who together have orchestrated the piece.

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