The district was established as Oulu Province South (Finnish: Oulun läänin eteläinen vaalipiiri; Swedish: Uleåborgs läns södra valkrets) [4 ] in 1907 when the Diet of Finland was replaced by the Parliament of Finland.
It was a majority government based on the ”red-soil government” model (Finnish: punamultahallitus), as it was a coalition formed by the Social Democrats, the Centre Party, the Swedish People’s Party, and the Rural Party.
The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change (Finnish: ympäristö- ja ilmastoministeri, Swedish: miljö- och klimatminister, formerly Minister of the Environment) is one of the ministerial portfolios which comprise the Finnish…
He was a member of the parliament from 1970 to 1975 and from 1983 to 1994. Suominen was the chairman of the National Coalition Party 1979–1991 and twice the speaker of the parliament 1987 and 1991–1994.