Veltto Virtanen
Politician, Musical Artist
1951 –
Who is Veltto Virtanen?
Pertti Olavi "Veltto" Virtanen is a rock personality, presidential candidate, and a member of the Finnish Parliament from Tampere, Finland.
In music he performed both as a solo artist and in the bands Virtanen, Välikausitakki and Sammas. Elektroninen xstaasi is considered the most famous of Veltto Virtanen's songs. Välikausitakki was notable for including also Mikko Alatalo, Harri Rinne and later also Juice Leskinen.
After running as an avowed spoiler in the 1994 presidential election, his surprisingly respectable popular vote spurred him to run in the 1995 election for the house of representatives as an essentially independent candidate, and indeed managed to get in. His terms in the Parliament were characteristically quixotic; the speeches he made being exercises in near-shamanistic eloqution, and counter to parliamentary protocol refusing to bare his head, sporting various headgear, but being most famous for his "artistic" beret. Although mostly a picturesque spice to the daily routines of the institution, he enjoyed considerable respect from many colleagues in the house.
The negligible party KiPu which tactically allied themselves to Veltto, never gained a member of its own, with or without his help; and thus he formed a one-man party-group in the house. Outside critics of the phenomenon of his political success wrote a muckraking book Huijari - Veltto Virtanen & Kirjava Puolue.
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- Born
- May 18, 1951
Hämeenlinna - Also known as
- Virtanen, Veltto
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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