Antti Kaikkonen

Antti Samuli Kaikkonen (born 14 February 1974 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish politician who has served as chair of the Centre Party since June 2024.

[3] On 21 June 2016, Kaikkonen was chosen as the chairman of the Centre Party's parliamentary group.

Amidst the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, he called for all party heads in Parliament to meet, and declared "everyone who comes to Finland has to follow the local laws".

[7] The prosecutor demanded Kaikkonen's imprisonment in the Youth Foundation bribery trial, that began on 16 January 2012.

In January 2013, the Helsinki District Court sentenced Kaikkonen to five months in conditional discharge for abuse of trust.

Kaikkonen with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist in Brussels, 13 October 2022