Tuomioja the longest serving Minister for Foreign Affairs
On Monday 9 February 2015, Minister Erkki Tuomioja will have served as Minister for Foreign Affairs for a total of 3,940 days. According to ministerial statistics, this means that Tuomioja will overtake long-serving Minister for Foreign Affairs Paavo Väyrynen. Ahti Karjalainen comes third.
Tuomioja became Minister for Foreign Affairs for the first time in Paavo Lipponen's second government from February in the year 2000. He has also served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Jäätteenmäki, Vanhanen I and Katainen governments. In Prime Minister Stubb's government, Tuomioja has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since June 2014.
In addition, he was Minister of Trade and Industry in the Lipponen II government. On 9 February, he will have clocked up 4,256 days as a minister.
Longest serving Minister for Foreign Affairs on 9.2.2015
Minister | No. of days in office
Tuomioja, Erkki Sakari | 3,940
Väyrynen, Paavo Matti | 3,939
Karjalainen, Ahti Kalle Samuli | 3,383
Enckell, Carl Johan Alexis | 2,502
Holsti, Eino Rudolf Woldemar | 1,890
Halonen, Tarja Kaarina | 1,780
Törngren, Ralf Johan Gustaf | 1,607
Procopé, Johan Hjalmar Fredrik | 1,496
Hackzell, Anders Verner | 1,394
Stubb, Cai-Göran Alexander | 1,175