Mika Lintila -Centre's candidate for finance minister in newly-formed coalition
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The Centre Party of Finland named Mika Lintila as its candidate for the post of finance minister in the newly formed, centre-left coalition government led by Social Democrat PM Antti Rinne, it announced on Twitter on Wednesday. Lintila, 53, has been a parliamentarian since 1999 and has worked as Economics Minister since 2016. The Centre Party, which won 31 of the 200 seats in parliament, is the second-biggest group in the five-party ruling coalition after the Social Democrats. It will get five posts in the cabinet, which will be sworn in later this week.
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