Centre to choose new chairman and prime minister

Photo: Jussi Nukari/LehtikuvaThe four chairman candidates –Timo Kaunisto (left), Mari Kiviniemi, Mauri Pekkarinen, and Paavo Väyrynen – were questioned at the Centre Party's committee meeting on April 25.

The Centre Party convenes to elect a new chair who will also become the next prime minister of Finland. With dismal poll showings and an endless election financing scandal, the party is in shambles and needs desperately a fresh start, writes Kyösti Karvonen, managing editor of Kaleva.

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