Prime Minister Juha Sipilä submits Government’s request for resignation – Government to continue on caretaker basis

Government Communications Department
Publication date 8.3.2019 10.57 | Published in English on 8.3.2019 at 11.29
Press release

Prime Minister Juha Sipilä submitted his Government’s request for resignation to the President of the Republic on Friday 8 March. President Niinistö approved the Prime Minister’s request for resignation and requested that the Government continue on a caretaker basis.

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Prime Minister Juha Sipilä's speech at Kesäranta 8 March 2019
Juha Sipilä