Antti Rinne

He led the Social Democratic Party from 2014 until 2020. In August 2023, he was hired as the General Secretary of SAMAK for a three-year term.

Antti Rinne
Rinne in 2019
45th Prime Minister of Finland
In office 6 June 2019 – 10 December 2019
President	Sauli Niinistö
Deputy	Mika Lintilä Katri Kulmuni
Preceded by	Juha Sipilä
Succeeded by	Sanna Marin
Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
In office 6 June 2014 – 29 May 2015
Prime Minister	Jyrki Katainen Alexander Stubb
Preceded by	Jutta Urpilainen
Succeeded by	Timo Soini
Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
In office 24 April 2019 – 5 June 2019
Preceded by	Paula Risikko
Succeeded by	Matti Vanhanen
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
In office 11 December 2019 – 16 December 2020
Speaker	Matti Vanhanen Anu Vehviläinen
Preceded by	Tuula Haatainen
Succeeded by	Tarja Filatov
Minister of Finance
In office 6 June 2014 – 29 May 2015
Prime Minister	Jyrki Katainen Alexander Stubb
Preceded by	Jutta Urpilainen
Succeeded by	Alexander Stubb
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
In office 9 May 2014 – 22 August 2020
Preceded by	Jutta Urpilainen
Succeeded by	Sanna Marin
Personal details
Born	(1962-11-03) 3 November 1962 (age 61) Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Political party	Social Democratic
Spouse	Heta Ravolainen
Education	University of Helsinki

A lawyer by profession, Rinne holds a Candidate of Law degree from the University of Helsinki. He served as chair of the Union of Private Sector Professionals (ERTO) from 2002 to 2005, the Union of Salaried Employees from 2005 to 2010, as well as Trade Union Pro from 2010 to 2014.

Rinne was elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) on 9 May 2014, defeating Jutta Urpilainen.

He was Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Finland between 2014 and 2015 and has been a Member of Parliament since 2015 until 2023. In the 2019 parliamentary election, Rinne led the Social Democrats to victory and served as Speaker of Parliament before being appointed as Prime Minister on 6 June 2019.

Rinne cabinet

Rinne and his cabinet resigned on 3 December 2019, when the Centre Party withdrew its support due to the 2019 Finnish postal strike. President Sauli Niinistö asked him to continue with a caretaker government until a new government was appointed. On 10 December 2019, Sanna Marin was appointed as Prime Minister of Finland.

On 11 December 2019, Rinne was elected as the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, replacing Tuula Haatainen, who was then named as the Minister of Employment in the Marin Cabinet.

Rinne ran in the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election, but was not re-elected. In August 2023, Rinne was hired as the General Secretary of SAMAK for a three-year term.

In 2017, Antti Rinne provoked some controversy by encouraging Finns to reproduce.

Antti Rinne was convicted of organizing an illegal strike with the trade union Pro against the forest industry. The conviction was upheld by an appellate court with an additional decision at the end of 2018 which also ordered Rinne to pay fines and legal costs to Metsäteollisuus, and advocacy group for the forest industry.

Rinne had to resign from an ACP (Automotive, Cargo and Ports worker's union, Finnish: AKT) lawyer position, because he had charged twice for the same work-related commute. According to him, it had been the result of negligence and amounted to only about FIM 1,000 (€200). In 2005, the President of the ACP stated in an interview with the Suomen Kuvalehti that it was actually FIM 10,000 (€2,000).

In a second court case discussed, Rinne was the manager of a housing company in Lohja, Finland. The Suomen Kuvalehti reported that he had failed to return the receipts for the year and had paid for his own telephone bill from the housing company's bank account. FIM 25,000 (€5,000) of damages were claimed from him by the housing company.

In 2022, Rinne applied for the position of Mayor of Lohja. Rinne's party has had a long history of governing Lohja, but 2022’s election results shifted the city council to the right. The city council started deciding on the next mayor in May 2022. The mayor's selection group was led by Joona Räsänen [fi], but he recused himself, as Rinne is his godparent.