Jussi Halla-aho
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Member of the European Parliament for Finland |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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Member of Parliament for Helsinki |
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In office 19 April 2011 – 30 June 2014 |
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| Succeeded by | Mika Raatikainen |
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Jussi Kristian Halla-aho 27 April 1971 Tampere, Finland |
| Political party | Finns Party |
| Spouse(s) | Hilla Halla-aho |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
| Website | Official website |
Jussi Kristian Halla-aho (born 27 April 1971) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. He is a member of the Finns Party, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists.
Halla-aho was first elected to the Helsinki City Council in 2008 and to the Finnish parliament in 2011. In 2014 he was elected to the European Parliament. In 13 March 2017, Jussi announced that he would seek the party chairmanship in June's party convention.
Halla-aho grew up in Tampere and lived there 24 years. His parents had moved there from Alajärvi. During the 1980s he travelled to the Soviet Union with his father, who was a bus driver. The trip was the spark for his anti-leftist convictions. When Halla-aho was young he worked as a waiter. When conscripted, instead of military service he chose civilian service. He later expressed regret at his decision, calling the choice a "stupid political protest", and voicing support for the present conscription system.
After highschool graduation, Halla-aho enrolled in Pirkanmaa hotel and restaurant institute, where he obtained a professional degree to become a restaurant waiter. Halla-aho studied at the University of Helsinki from 1995 to 2000. During his post-graduate period (2000–2006), he worked at the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Studies as a researcher and teacher of Old Church Slavic. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 2006, having written his dissertation about historical nominal morphology of Old Church Slavonic. He has published two articles in scientific journals, been interested in comparative Indo-European linguistics, and has written Old Church Slavic Manual, which is used at the University of Helsinki.
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