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Place of Birth: Pello, Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland, Finland
About Paavo Lipponen
- Paavo Tapio Lipponen (pronunciation ) (born 23 April 1941) is a Finnish politician and former reporter.
- He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005.
- He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 to 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6.7% of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party had ever received in Finnish Presidential elections at the time.
- Lipponen is currently the oldest living former Prime Minister of Finland.
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