Finland will have a new presidential couple next month.
The People’s Movement and the Greens Pekka Haavisto or the convention Alexander Stubb will be elected president on February 11.
The future president’s life changes, as do his spouses, who were both born abroad.
54 years old Suzanne Innes-Stubb is from Solihull, a town of about 127,000 in the Midlands of England. Solihull, located near Birmingham, is described as a quite prosperous British town.
Suzanne’s mother is from Essex, where her brothers still run a farm near Stansted Airport. Suzanne’s father is of Scottish descent, and the surname Innes comes from the Innes clan.
– Since I’m married into the Innes family, I can use the clan’s kilt. I haven’t dared to wear it to Linna’s party yet, Stubb recently joked in his biography.
Suzanne Innes-Stubb and Alexander Stubb kissed at the polling station. Pasi Liesimaa
Suzanne studied law, French and German at the University of Surrey, so like her husband, she is quite fluent in languages. Suzanne also speaks Finnish and Swedish. He graduated in 1995 from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where he studied European law. He has a Master of Laws degree.
Suzanne and Alexander met at that university, which is also called the University of EU Officials. Alexander himself has told how the university is also called the College of Love, because many EU officials have mated there.
Suzanne and Alexander got married in 1998.
While living in Brussels, Suzanne worked as a lawyer at the international law firm White & Case. They moved to Helsinki in 2009 and Suzanne continued working for the same company.
At that point, the family had grown with two children. Suzanne and Alex’s first child Emilie was born in 2001. Little brother Oliver was born three years later, so both children are already adults.
This is how the couple looked at Linna’s party in 2007. JARNO JUTI
In 2014, Suzanne started as a lawyer at Sanoma, her area of responsibility being competition matters. At the same time, Alexander was the prime minister of Finland.
In 2017, Suzanne moved to Kone, where her title is Head of Global Compliance. The year was also significant, because Suzanne received Finnish citizenship at that time.
Suzanne has hardly been seen in public before the presidential election campaign. He took the stage at the coalition’s extraordinary party meeting in Espoo’s Dipoli on October 28, and gave a supporting speech in Finnish and partly in Swedish.
On Sunday’s election day, Suzanne told Iltalehti what kind of president’s spouse she would be.
– I believe that there are suitable forms for my role in which I can serve Finland and Finns, Suzanne said.
As the president’s spouse, she would raise the well-being of families and how to bring people together through music and sports as her important themes.
There was enough joy in the election supervisors. Pasi Liesimaa
Antonio Flores
Unlike Suzanne Innes-Stubb, Pekka Haavisto’s husband Antonio Flores, 45, has not avoided publicity, on the contrary.
Antonio, who comes from Esmeraldas, Ecuador, became known to the general public at the latest Dancing with the Stars – program, which he participated in in 2012. Since then, he has also participated in the Olen julkis – let me out program and Farmi Suomei.
Pekka Haavisto and Antonio Flores at election supervisors on Sunday. Jenni Gästgivar
Antonio said recently In the Green Thread interview of childhood losses. He was only five years old when his grandmother died. He lost his father at the age of six and his grandfather at the age of seven.
Antonio’s mother worked as a secretary and had a small kiosk. Antonio trained as a barber-hairdresser in his home country.
Since then, he has also studied to become a media assistant and tutor.
Antonio Flores opened his own hair salon last November in the heart of Helsinki. Good luck Kari
Antonio opened his own hair salon, House of Flores, in Helsinki’s Aikatalo last November.
Flores said she wants to continue as a hairdresser entrepreneur, even if she becomes the president’s spouse.
– And when it’s the first man and not the first woman, that role can be a little different than, say, Jenni Haukio. You could probably go a little along the same lines as Tarja Halonen spouse [Pentti Arajärvi]Flores reflected in November.
In December, Flores told Iltalehti that he was one of the victims of Vastaamo’s data breach. The short therapy session was a condition of mediation, in which Flores was a party after behaving violently towards two women on a Swedish ship in 2013. Flores apologized for his behavior shortly after the incident and said he would get help yourself.
Antonio and Pekka at Linna’s party in 2009. Matti Matikainen / AOP
Antonio and Peka don’t have children, but Antonio dreams of having children, and Finnish legislation enables adoption rights for gay couples.
– Having a child has always been my dream. For the past ten years, I have thought about it a lot, Flores said in January at Ilta-Sanomie’s election fair.
– I have decided that if my dream has not come true at the age of 50, then it can remain a dream, says Flores.
He turns 46 in July.