Nationality Finnish Name Sampo Terho Role Finnish Politician | Religion Lutheran | |
Born September 20, 1977 (age 47) ( 1977-09-20 ) Similar People Jussi Halla‑aho, Timo Soini, Jussi Niinisto | ||
Occupation Politician, Researcher | ||
Sampo Terho-EU Crisis an excuse for United States of Europe
Sampo Terho (Born 20 September 1977) is a Finnish politician and the current Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports. He is the chairman of Suomalaisuuden Liitto and was earlier a Member of the European Parliament.
Terho graduated from the University of Tampere in 2003 with a Master's degree in Finnish History, and has worked as a researcher in the Finnish National Defence University. He has written a book on the history of capital punishment. Terho has also served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Terho received the second largest amount of votes on the True Finns' (now known as Finns Party) electoral list in the 2009 European Parliament election. He succeeded Timo Soini in the European Parliament when Soini was elected to Parliament of Finland in the 2011 election. He was re-elected in the 2014 election.
Terho participated the 2015 parliamentary election and was elected to the parliament with 10,067 personal votes. His term in the European Parliament ended on 27 April, when Terho officially accepted the seat in the Finnish Parliament. He became the chairman of the Finns Party's parliamentary group.
In March 2017, Terho announced that he would seek the party chairmanship in June's party convention. On 5 May 2017, he started as the Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports in Sipilä Cabinet.
He was a candidate for Finns Party leadership election, 2017, but ultimately lost to Jussi Halla-aho. On 13 June 2017, Terho and 19 others left the Finns Party parliamentary group to found the New Alternative parliamentary group.