Ville Tavio Explained

Ville Tavio
Office:Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade
Primeminister:Petteri Orpo
Term Start:20 June 2023
Predecessor:Ville Skinnari
Office1:Chairperson of the Finns Party Parliamentary Group
Term Start1:23 April 2019
Predecessor1:Leena Meri
Office2:Member of the Finnish Parliament
for Finland Proper
Term Start2:22 April 2015
Birth Name:Ville Tapani Tavio
Birth Date:25 June 1984
Birth Place:Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland
Party:Finns Party

Ville Tapani Tavio (born June 25, 1984) is a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland (MP).[1] He became the chairperson of the Finns Party Parliamentary Group in April 2019.[2] [3] He has been Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade since June 2023.

Education

After upper secondary school graduation, Tavio enrolled in the University of Turku and received LL.M. degree in 2012. He has been an exchange student at the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand in 2010.[4]

Political career

Tavio joined the Finns Party in 2012.[5] He was first elected to the Turku City Council in October 2012 and to the Parliament of Finland in April 2015.

In June 2023, he was appointed Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade in the Orpo Cabinet.[6]

Controversies

After his appointment in June 2023, Tavio's past remarks came under scrutiny, as he had continuously claimed in the Parliament that ethnic Finns are being demographically replaced with non-white peoples, thus referring to the Great Replacement. Finnish Security Intelligence Service considers that the Great Replacement is one of the noteworthy ideological motivations of far-right terrorism.[7]

Tavio has also written that, if living in the Wild West, "climate-crazed" president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen would have been "kicked out of the country and dipped in oil and feathers". These writings circulated widely in German media after Tavio's appointment.[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tässä uusi eduskunta – katso kaikki 200 kansanedustajaa. IS. 2019-04-15. Ilta-Sanomat. fi. 2019-09-21.
  2. Web site: Ville Tavio arvostelee hallituksen taloustoimia: Perussuomalaisten linja on, että valtio ei voi jakaa sellaista, mitä sillä ei ole. Jantunen. Salla. Joensuu. 2019-08-29. Ilta-Sanomat. fi. 2019-09-21.
  3. Web site: Turkulainen Tavio Perussuomalaisten eduskuntaryhmän johtoon . Taponen . Aki . TS-Yhtymä oy . April 23, 2019 . Turun Sanomat . September 20, 2019 . fi.
  4. Web site: Tavio . Ville . September 16, 2019 . CV of Ville Tavio . September 26, 2019 .
  5. Web site: Ville Tavio: "Suomi on suomalaisten kansallisvaltio" . Ollikainen . Jasmina . Vapaan sanan tuki ry . May 16, 2019 . Kansalainen . September 20, 2019 . fi.
  6. Web site: Prime Minister Orpo's Government appointed . 2023-06-21 . Valtioneuvosto . en-US.
  7. Web site: Ministeri Ville Tavio on puhunut väestönvaihdosta useita kertoja eduskunnassa. 2023-07-03 . 2023-07-04 . Helsingin Sanomat.
  8. Web site: Das Gruselkabinett . 2023-07-04 . 2023-07-05 . Süddeutsche Zeitung.