Samuli Pohjamo (born 4 April 1950) is a Finnish Centre Party politician and journalist, born in

Oulu Oulu ( , ; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Ostrobothnia. It is located on the northwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Oulujoki, River Oulu. The population of Oulu is approximately , while the Oulu sub-regio ...

. He has served as a

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(MEP) from 1999 to 2004, and again from 19 April 2007. In the spring of 1999, the Finnish MEP Sirkka-Liisa Anttila opted to resign three months before her term was up to accept a position in the

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. Pohjamo, having been second runner-up in the previous election (

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, the first Centre Party runner-up, declined), became a member for the brief period until the next election, the following summer. In the 1999 European Parliament elections, Pohjamo was re-elected with a 25,000 votes, most of them coming from his home region in Oulu. During his five-year term he served as a member of the

Committee on Regional Development A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...

. In the 2004 election, Pohjamo increased his tally of votes to 27,490, but his lack of nationwide support (only 3,000 of those votes came from outside the Oulu electoral district) caused him to fall short of the mark, becoming his party's first runner-up. When fellow Centre Party representative

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resigned his membership in the European Parliament to move into the position of Finland's Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Pohjamo was once again raised from the position of runner-up into a parliament member. Samuli Pohjamo has been an editor-in-chief in Suomenmaa.

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Biography on the European Parliament website
1950 births Living people People from Oulu Centre Party (Finland) MEPs MEPs for Finland 1999–2004 MEPs for Finland 2004–2009 Finnish journalists {{Finland-MEP-stub