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Finnish PM to Resign Over Iraq Leak Scandal
Reuters ^
| Wed June 18, 2003 12:49 PM ET
Posted on 06/18/2003 11:04:17 AM PDT by yonif
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's first woman Prime Minister Anneli Jaatteenmaki said she would resign on Wednesday evening after she used leaked secret state information on Iraq during March parliamentary elections. "If trust goes, it goes. I do not have that trust," Jaatteenmaki told a packed news conference at the parliament. "I did not ask for secret papers."
The resignation caps a tumultuous two days triggered by the admission by a presidential aide that he leaked secret government information on Iraq to Jaatteenmaki during the election campaign.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Antti Kalliomaki will take Jaatteenmaki's place on a temporary basis until a replacement is named.
But despite the resignation, Jaatteenmaki, 48, said she would still go to the European Union summit in Thessaloniki, Greece, later this week.
A spokesman for Jaatteenmaki's Center Party said the party wanted to continue the current government cooperation, which groups the Center along with the Social Democratic Party and the Swedish People's Party.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: finland; finn; finns; iraq; jaatteenmaki; leak; leakers; leaks; premier; primeminister
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:04:18 AM PDT
by
yonif
To: yonif
How did she use the info in an election?
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:06:34 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: yonif
She's finnished.
3
posted on
06/18/2003 11:07:37 AM PDT
by
dead
To: yonif; MEG33
This article is as clear as mud.
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:08:04 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(The Road Map to Peace is looking more like a "Road Map to Pieces".)
To: yonif
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's first woman Prime Minister ...the Social Democratic Party and the Swedish People's Party.Wait, which country is this?
To: yonif
"Do youuu mean zeese secret paperz?"
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:09:53 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(So. This is Virginia.... where are all the virgins?)
To: dead
She's finnished. As PM, anyway.
Judging from the picture, I don't think she'll be able to go back to her old job, though. She was a .... Lapp Dancer.
(badda boom.)
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:10:36 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: yonif
Our top two candidates get top secret info going into the general election..if she didn't use this in some way, what's the big deal?? I don't understand.
To: dead
dead, you kill me... which I guess is part of your job description...
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:13:07 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: The Old Hoosier
"Wait, which country is this?"
Finland has a 6% Swedish minority.
To: r9etb
Yikes, that was alot of work for the punch line! 8-)
She looks like Sharon Osbourne.
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:17:52 AM PDT
by
dead
To: r9etb; dead
Your posts made it worth stopping by!LOL
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:22:23 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: dead
She looks like Sharon Osbourne. Or Cherie Blair.
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:24:29 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: yonif
WOW, this is huge, almost as big as the news about Homer Simpson.
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posted on
06/18/2003 11:47:29 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(The Dems are self-destructing before our eyes, How Great is That !)
To: yonif
There's a problem with leaking secret documents?
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posted on
06/18/2003 12:00:55 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Paranoia is when you realize that tin foil hats just focus the mind control beams.)
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