Matti Allan Ahde (23 December 1945 – 20 December 2019) was a Finnish politician from the

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. Ahde was born in

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. He was a member of the parliament from 1970 to 1990, when he left to become CEO of the

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Veikkaus Veikkaus Oy is the Finnish government-owned betting agency which holds a monopoly in the country. It was formed in 2017 as a merger of three previously existing betting and gambling agencies of Veikkaus, Fintoto and Finland's Slot Machine As ...

. Ahde held minister posts in Sorsa's cabinets 1982–1987 and was elected Speaker of the Parliament in 1987. He was replaced as the speaker by

Kalevi Sorsa Taisto Kalevi Sorsa (21December 193016January 2004) was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland three times: 1972–1975, 1977–1979 and 1982–1987. At the time of his death he still held the record for most days of incumb ...

in 1989 when Sorsa stepped down from Holkeri's cabinet to make the position available for party chairman Pertti Paasio. Ahde quit as CEO of Veikkaus in 2001 and was re-elected to the parliament in 2003. On 20 December 2019, Ahde died of pancreatic cancer at his home in

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