1. On 10 June 2017, Hakkarainen was elected Second Vice Chairman of the Finns Party.
17 Facts About Teuvo Hakkarainen
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On 30 April 2024, Teuvo Hakkarainen decided to run in the 2024 European Parliament election in Finland as an uncommitted candidate of the Freedom Alliance after the Finns Party refused to nominate him for re-election.
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Teuvo Hakkarainen subsequently lost his seat in the European Parliament and announced his retirement from politics.
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In May 2011, Teuvo Hakkarainen was talking to junior high school students.
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In October 2011, Teuvo Hakkarainen told the tabloid Ilta-Sanomat that homosexuals, lesbians and Somalis ought to be deported to Aland to form their own society.
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On 16 December 2015, as a member of Finnish Parliament and a representative of the Finns Party, Teuvo Hakkarainen inquired the Minister of Justice, a member of the same party, if capital punishment could be re-enacted, referring to the court case against two asylum seekers.
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Teuvo Hakkarainen made a mocking imitation of the Islamic call to prayer.
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Later The Finnish Police announced that they did not feel that comments made by Teuvo Hakkarainen give cause for a criminal investigation.
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Police proposed to the Prosecutor General that no criminal investigation should be launched, saying that Teuvo Hakkarainen's comments were an exercise of free speech, and not hate speech.
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Teuvo Hakkarainen defended the language he had used by stating that he comes from a rural background.
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In January 2017, Teuvo Hakkarainen was convicted of incitement against an ethnic group.
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In December 2017, Teuvo Hakkarainen assaulted MP Veera Ruoho in the parliament house.
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Ruoho was sitting on a table as Teuvo Hakkarainen grabbed her neck from behind and forcefully kissed her in the face.
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Teuvo Hakkarainen was a co-owner of the Haka-Wood saw mill in Viitasaari.
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Teuvo Hakkarainen stated to Helsingin Sanomat that "if we weren't members [of the EU], we wouldn't be asking them for money".
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Teuvo Hakkarainen has worked as a sawmill consultant in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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In 1986, Teuvo Hakkarainen was a member of a gang that broke into the Suomussalmi church and stole 125 eucharist chalices, 24 bottles of sacramental wine and the money offerings.