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Tue, 26 May, 2015 12:35:52 AM Ville Niinistö for retaining environment ministry FTimes – STT Report, May 26  Juha Sipilä, chairman of Keskusta, the chairman of Finns Party, Timo Soini (left.) and Chairman of the Kokoomus, Alexander Stubb government after the negotiations for alliance government on Monday. Photo – Lehtikuva. The government negotiations leader and Suomen Keskusta (Centre Party) chief Juha Sipilä confirmed that the number of ministries will be pared down to 12.
He also said that ministries will not be combined.
“We have received a report with various options, but we have found that there is so much change in the air, and the timing just doesn’t make sense,” Sipilä observed.
According to Sipilä, the number of ministers is still open, but it will be seriously trimmed down.
The government of the outgoing Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has 17 ministers.
“There will be changes. When losing these many positions, a lot of tasks are reassigned.”
According to Sipilä, the ministers will be named after Thursday, when the prime minister is chosen.
chairman of the Green League, Ville Niinistö. File Photo – Str / Lehtikuva. Meanwhile, Green Party chairman Ville Niinistö said that the abolition of the Ministry of the Environment will increase the power of lobbyists at the expense of citizens and the environment.
In his blog Niinistö wrote that the support for dismantling the ministry is being driven by industry interests. “They would like to manage their affairs without government regulation, which has always defended the public interest in natural diversity and a clean environment.”
Niinistö estimates that the dismantling is wanted by the Agricultural and Forest Producers Association (MTK), which saw an interruption in south Finland due to a conservation programme aimed at the peat lands at the end of the last parliamentary term.
In Niinistö’s view, something is to be said for the fact that the planned environmental ministry would be in Russian model, which is not in use in Western countries.
“The proposed ministry would be like a goat guarding the cabbage patch.”
The former environmental minister points out that the Ministry of the Environment was created in 1983, one of the first among modern nations, which saw the need for government regulation to protect the deteriorating state of the environment.
The first environment minister, Matti Ahde, received a mandate, among other things, to preserve Finland’s last free-flowing rapids.
“The Ministry of the Environment is needed to safeguard the public interest in a clean environment,” Niinistö said.
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