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Tarja Halonen is the first woman who became a president of Finland. She was born on 24.12.1943 in Helsinki. Halonen was voted to become the president in the year 2000 and in the year 2006. She made very much for Finland.
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In the presentation ceremony on 14 February 2006, President Tarja Halonen said that knowhow, innovations, efficient application and commercialization of new technologies are key words in internationalization. The award-winning companies have understood the importance of these success factors in an exemplary manner.
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Early in her political career Tarja Halonen represented the radical left wing of her former party (Social Democrat). She publicly opposed the proposed free trade agreement of the European Economic Community (EEC, later European Union) in 1973, by signing a petition along with 500 other more-or-less prominent social democrats and socialists. As an employee of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, Halonen advocated diplomatic recognition of East Germany. Otherwise she was loyal to President Kekkonen's foreign policy, which was founded on Finnish neutrality and good relations with the Soviet Union.
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On September 27, after the official ceremony of welcoming the high guest at the residence of the President of Armenia, Robert Kocharian and Tarja Halonen held a face-to-face meeting. The leaders of the two states discussed Armenia-Finland bilateral relations, EU-Armenia cooperation, regional issues, and exchanged views on the current international issues.
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Tarja Halonen, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, has been re-elected to a second six-year term as President of Finland. She faced surprisingly close competition from her challenger, a representative of the National Coalition Party. Halonen secured 51.8 percent of votes in the runoff against Niinistö's 48.2 percent. Voter turnout in the second round was 77.1 percent, showing a three percent rise from the first round.
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Tarja Halonen (the SDP and Left Alliance candidate) has been re-elected for a second six-year term as Finland's President of the Republic. With all the votes counted, Halonen had an advantage of rather more than 110,000 votes over the challenger Sauli Niinistö of the National Coalition Party.
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