Heli Paasio
Heli Tuulikki Paasio is a Finnish politician from Turku. A Social Democrat, she was member of the Parliament of Finland for Finland Proper from 1999 to 2015.
Paasio is daughter of Pertti Paasio and granddaughter of Rafael Paasio who were both prominent Social Democratic politicians. She graduated as Master of Philosophy in 1999. She was elected to the Parliament four times. In the 2011 election she received 13,945 votes, the most in Finland Proper and the eight-most in the entire Finland. After a parliamentary career of sixteen years, she retired from the Parliament in 2015.
