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Place of Birth: Rovaniemi, Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland, Finland
About Matti Torvinen
- Matti Torvinen (born 30 January 1957 in Rovaniemi) is a Finnish politician and the party secretary of the Blue Reform.
- He represented the Finns Party in the City Council of Rovaniemi since 2012, being elected in 2012 and 2017.
- Torvinen was a candidate in the 2015 parliamentary election, and the 2269 votes he gained were enough for a substitute place.In June 2017, another MP Hanna Mäntylä left the Parliament, and it was confirmed that Torvinen will replace her on 1 July 2017.
- At the time, Finns Party's parliamentary group had split in two due to the aftermath of the recent leadership election.
- Torvinen joined the New Alternative, the faction that broke away from the Finns Party's parliamentary group.
- He subsequently resigned from the Finns Party.On 15 November 2017, the New Alternative was officially registered as a political party under the name of Blue Reform.
- In the first party convention, organized on 16 December 2017, Torvinen was elected as the party secretary.
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