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Parliament of Finland

  • Finnish: Eduskunta
  • Swedish: Riksdagen

Governs Finland

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  • (set by law; may still move) General election · Member of Parliament

Who sits on it

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What it can do

  • Legislative power

    Parliament exercises the legislative power and decides on State finances (Constitution of Finland (731/1999), section 3).

  • State budget

    Parliament decides on the State budget on the Government proposal (Constitution, section 83).

  • Election of the Prime Minister

    Parliament elects the Prime Minister, who is then appointed by the President (Constitution, section 61).

  • Oversight of the Government

    Ministers are responsible to Parliament for their actions and Parliament can express no confidence in the Government (Constitution, sections 3 and 43).

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  • Legislative power finlex.fi · checked
  • State budget finlex.fi · checked
  • Election of the Prime Minister finlex.fi · checked
  • Oversight of the Government finlex.fi · checked
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  • eduskunta.fi · checked Eduskunta (Parliament of Finland) website, read 2026-10-12: institution, 200 members, 13 electoral districts. For: Parliament of Finland, Member of Parliament
  • eduskunta.fi · checked Official Finnish and Swedish names of the institutions as used on eduskunta.fi, presidentti.fi, valtioneuvosto.fi, korkeinoikeus.fi, kho.fi, lagtinget.ax and regeringen.ax, read 2026-10-12 and Statistics Finland regional classification for the 19 region names. For: Parliament of Finland in Finnish, Parliament of Finland in Swedish
  • finlex.fi · checked Finlex, Constitution of Finland (731/1999) English translation, as cited in the description: structure of presidency, government, parliament and courts. For: Legislative power, State budget, Election of the Prime Minister, Oversight of the Government
  • en.wikipedia.org · checked Wikipedia, Speaker of the Parliament of Finland, read 2026-10-12: Speaker Jussi Halla-aho, took office 21 June 2023. Fallback: Wikipedia, because eduskunta.fi pages did not state the date. For: Speaker of Parliament, Jussi Halla-aho as Speaker of Parliament
  • avoindata.eduskunta.fi · checked Eduskunta (Parliament of Finland), Open data API table MemberOfParliament (XML person records), fetched 2026-10-12, read 2026-10-12: members of the 200-seat Parliament, electoral district, parliamentary group, mandate dates, public e-mail. For: Mats Löfström as MP, Åland electoral district, Anne Kalmari as MP, Central Finland electoral district, Bella Forsgrén as MP, Central Finland electoral district, Jani Kokko as MP, Central Finland electoral district, Kaisa Garedew as MP, Central Finland electoral district and 195 more
  • vaalit.fi · checked Ministry of Justice election site vaalit.fi, general rule read 2026-10-12 (parliamentary election on the third Sunday of April, presidential on the last Sunday of January) per Constitution sections 26, 27 and 54; 2027-04-18 and 2030-01-27 computed from that rule, not stated on a fetched page. For: General election, April 18, 2027

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