Esko-Juhani Tennilä is Finnish leftist politician from Lapland and member of Parliament since 1975 until 2011.

Tennilä was born in Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland. It is situated close to the Arctic Circle and is between the hills of Ounasvaara and Korkalovaara, at the confluence of the Kemijoki River and its...

 and has studied in University of Tampere

University of Tampere

The University of Tampere is a university in Tampere, Finland. It has 15,400 degree students and 2,100 employees. It was originally founded in 1925 in Helsinki as a Civic College , and from 1930 onwards it was known as a School of Social Sciences...

 and worked as reporter for Hämeen Yhteistyö 1966–1975.

Tennilä has been elected to Parliament from lists of SKDL

Finnish People's Democratic League

Finnish People's Democratic League was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic Party...

 1975–1979, as independent 1983, as a representative of DeVa

Democratic Alternative (Finland)

Democratic Alternative was a political party in Finland. Deva was formed in 1986 by expelled members of the Communist Party of Finland and its mass front Finnish People's Democratic League...

 in 1987, and representative of Left Alliance

Left Alliance (Finland)

The Left Alliance is a left-wing political party in Finland. It was founded on the basis of the Finnish People's Democratic League and the Communist Party of Finland in 1990....

 from 1991.

Tennilä was member of pro-Moscow opposition on Communist Party of Finland that was expelled from the party in 1986 and formed DeVa. He was chairman of Communist Party of Finland (Unity) in 1989–1990. Tennilä left the chairmanship in 1990 as he joined Left Alliance.

Tennilä was internal critic of Left Alliance politics and was dismissed in 1995 from Left Alliance's parliamentary group as he opposed joining the Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet

Paavo Lipponen's first Cabinet

Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet was the 66th government of Republic of Finland. Cabinet's time period was from April 13, 1995 to April 15, 1999. It was Majority government....

. He returned to list of Left Alliance in 1999 elections.

Tennilä has profiled himself as representative of Northern Finland and was in 2003 the most popular of the elected representatives in Lapland constituency

Lapland (constituency)

Lapland is an electoral district represented in the Finnish Eduskunta . It covers the administrative region of Lapland, with a population of 187,777 . Lapland currently elects seven members of the Eduskunta....

. He has written poetry and children's books.

Sources

• http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=278&kieli=su (Finnish)