{"id":29919,"date":"2024-01-29T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29919"},"modified":"2024-01-29T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:16:28","slug":"furman-alum-stubb-wins-first-round-of-finnish-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alum-stubb-wins-first-round-of-finnish-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alum Stubb wins first round of Finnish presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several news sources reported on Sunday&#8217;s first round of presidential elections in Finland. Furman University alumnus and former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb narrowly defeated former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto. The two will go head-to-head in a runoff on Feb. 11. The news was covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-01-28\/finland-s-presidential-election-has-alexander-stubb-take-early-lead\">Bloomberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/finlands-stubb-and-haavisto-head-for-runoff-in-presidential-election\/\">POLITICO,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/finland-election-2024-who-won-vote-alexander-stubb-b1135407.html\">The Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/europe\/finland-s-former-pm-to-face-diplomat-in-presidential-run-off\">The Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stubb &#8217;93 H&#8217;17 came to Furman to study political science and play collegiate sports. He served as prime minister from 2014-2015. He has held posts in the Finnish government including finance minister, foreign minister, trade and Europe minister and was a member of the Finnish Parliament. Stubb was a member of the European Parliament from 2004-2008 and served in the national government from 2008-2016. Stubb was also a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has a master\u2019s degree from the College of Europe in Bruges. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He received an honorary degree from Furman in 2017 when he delivered Furman&#8217;s commencement address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several news sources report on Alexander Stubb&#8217;s narrow victory over diplomat Pekka Haavisto. The two will face each other in a second-round runoff Feb. 11. Stubb is a 1993 Furman alumnus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":27152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2521,6,2224,32,2522,2523],"tags":[2519,2518,2520],"class_list":["post-29919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-bloomberg","category-in-the-news","category-politico","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-standard","category-the-straits-times","tag-alexander-stubb","tag-finland-presidential-elections","tag-pekka-haavisto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}