Eino Uusitalo

Who is Eino Uusitalo?

Eino Uusitalo is a Finnish politician from the Centre Party.

Uusitalo has the education of an agronomist. He was a member of the parliament from 1955 to 1983 from the list of Centre Party. He was Minister of the Interior in Ahti Karjalainen cabinet in 1971 and Miettunen, Sorsa and Koivisto cabinets 1976-1982. He was also Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1982, and acted as a substitute to Prime Minister Koivisto from Autumn 1981 to February 1982, because President Kekkonen was ill and Koivisto was the substitute for Kekkonen. After Koivisto won the presidential election and nominated Kalevi Sorsa as Prime Minister, Uusitalo returned to his position as Minister of the Interior in the cabinet.

Uusitalo is remembered mostly because of his proposition to declare 19 September as a second independence day of Finland. That date is the day of Moscow Armistice 1944. Uusitalo was fighting in the Continuation War 1942-1944 in Metsäpirtti, Karelian Isthmus.