Aino Maria Susanna Haapoja (November 13, 1966 – May 30, 2009) was a
Finnish politician
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in the
Centre Party. Haapoja was born in
Kauhava
Kauhava is a List of cities and towns in Finland, town and municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia regions of Finland, region, northwest of Helsinki and by the main railway from Helsinki to Oul ...
and became a Member of
Parliament
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in 2003 and was elected for a second term in 2007. In 2005, she became the chair of the Kauhava city council. She was an agrologist by training.
Haapoja died aged 42 in
Tampere
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after having suffered a
cerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both. An ICH is a type of bleeding within the skull and one kind of stro ...
the previous day.
MP Haapoja Dies Suddenly
/ref> Her father, Kalevi Haapoja Kalevi may refer to
* Kalevi (mythology), an ancient Finnish and Estonian ruler, known from the Finnish epic Kalevala and Estonian epic Kalevipoeg
''Kalevipoeg'' (, ''Kalev's Son'') is a 19th-century epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald ...
, is an actor.
References
1966 births
2009 deaths
People from Kauhava
Centre Party (Finland) politicians
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2003–2007)
Members of the Parliament of Finland (2007–2011)
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