Jani Kokko

Jani Kokko (born 1987) is a Finnish social-democratic politician.[1][2] He was elected as a Member of Parliament in the 2023 Parliamentary elections with 4,890 votes from the constituency of Central Finland.[3]

Jani Kokko
Member of the Parliament of Finland
Assumed office
2023
Personal details
Born1987
OccupationPolitician

Biography

Previously, he was a PhD researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä.[4] He has been a councillor in Muurame Municipality since 2009 and is the 1st vice-chairman of the Muurame Municipal council.[5] He is also the Chairman of the Regional Council of Central Finland. Kokko lives in Muurame.[6]

Kokko's master's thesis The voice of the nation: The Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents as a Genre of Political Speech from George Washington to Barack Obama was accepted by the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä in August 2012.[7] He worked on the 2020 US presidential election[8] and on the NATO membership process as a Yle expert.[9] Kokko was one of the persons responsible for drafting the citizens' initiative on Finland's accession to NATO.[10]

In December 2022, Kokko, as chairman of the regional council, interpreted that a person employed by a welfare district directly under the regional government could not serve on the regional government and that the four board members or colour guard should resign from the regional government.[11] However, the regional government decided in December 2022 that the persons could continue as members of the regional government indefinitely.[12]

Kokko is a member of the board of directors of the Central Finland First Aid and Shelter Home Association and the Federal Board of the Association of First Aid and Shelter Homes.[5]

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