Musician Jontte Valosaari is running for the parliamentary elections. Many other celebrities also dream of a place on Arkadianmäki.
Jontte Valosaari is running for a seat as a Member of Parliament. Venla Shalin
Became famous as a musician Jontte Valosaari is running for the spring parliamentary elections. He is running on Liike Nyti’s lists in Uusimaa.
– The decision did not happen in an instant. At first I thought it wasn’t my thing and I didn’t experience it as my own, Valosaari tells Iltalehte.
The result of the story
He went to the parliament to meet the chairman of the party Harry Harkimoa and others belonging to the party.
– We had a good talk. I started thinking that I might be missing something here. I came to the conclusion that on the contrary, rather I can make the sound heard.
Valosaari says that he has been asked to be a candidate before, but right now the timing was right.
Valosaari has children himself, and it is children and young people’s issues that are his priority.
– It is not always saved and cut in the right place. Children and young people are the last thing to be cut from.
Valosaari does not evaluate its own votes.
– I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than badly disappointed. I accept good things humbly.
Valosaari is a 42-year-old musician and firefighter. His first song Jos mä oisin sun mies was released in 2012. He has also guested on Cheek’s and Elastinen’s songs, for example.
Other celebrity candidates
In addition to Valosaari, there are a lot of Finns running in the parliamentary elections who came to the public through other means than politics.
Singer Frederik lived Ilkka Sysimetsä is running for parliament in this spring’s elections. Reetu is a candidate from the list of the Vavaude liitto party. It is not the first time that the iskelmä star aspires to become a member of parliament, but the party has now changed. In 2007, the singer was a candidate for Basic Finns in the Helsinki constituency.
Among the candidates known to the public, there is also an ex-hockey player Jere Karalahti. Karalahti is a parliamentary candidate of the Liike Nyt party.
Jere Karalahti is running for parliament. Jussi Eskola
There is also a reality TV star in the ranks of Liike Nyt as a parliamentary election candidate Amanda Harkimo.
Amanda Harkimo is a candidate in the parliamentary elections. Jussi Eskola
An actor who once rose to fame with the favorite series Putous Riku Nieminen has been nominated as a parliamentary election candidate in the spring elections from the list of the Left Alliance.
Known as Diil’s advisor and the founder of Jungle Juice Bar Noora Fagerström is a candidate in the ranks of the coalition.
Became familiar as a television repairman Jorma Piisinen is, on the other hand, a parliamentary election candidate in the ranks of basic Finns.
Iltalehti recently reported that Sofia Kazakov is a candidate from the ranks of the Power belongs to the people party. In recent years, Kazakov appeared in Finland’s perfect Russian women TV series.