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Place of Birth: Iitti, Southern Finland Province, Finland
About Mikko Pesälä
- Mikko Pesälä (born 30 November 1938 in Iitti) is a Finnish former politician who served as the Finnish member of the European Parliament.
- A farmer by trade, he served as a member of the Parliament of Finland for 24 years, from 1975 to 1999, representing the Centre Party.
- He also served as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry from 1994 to 1995. In the election in 1999, Pesälä was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), representing Finland and the ELDR.
- He declined to run for re-election in 2004 and withdrew from political life.
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