Prime Minister’s resignation to the President of the Republic

Photo: Matti Porre/Office of the President of the Republic of Finland

Photo: Matti Porre/Office of the President of the Republic of Finland

Office of the President of the Republic
Press Release 5/2019
8 March 2019

Prime Minister Juha Sipilä has submitted the resignation of the Government to President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö in Mäntyniemi today, on 8 March 2019.

The President has accepted the Government’s resignation and asked it to continue on a caretaker basis until a new government has been appointed.