Jyrki Tapani Katainen (born October 14, 1971) is chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) and the Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Finland. Katainen's National Coalition Party wants to cut corporate taxes, raise the retirement age, promote nuclear power and bailout Portugal.
While the pro-EU National Coalition Party emerged as the strongest party in the 2011 parliamentary election, with 20.4% of the vote, and analysts expect 39-year-old Katainen to become the next Prime Minister of Finland, negotiations will be tough, even after a government is formed in May, because the Euro-sceptic True Finns got 19% of the vote, compared to 4% in 2007, the Social Democratic Party - considered "the opposition" - got 19.1% of the votes and the outgoing Center Party of the incumbent Prime Minister, that got only 15.8% of the vote (down from 23% in 2007) stated that they would "go with the opposition".
In March 2011 Jyrki Katainen was able to accept two new nuclear reactors in Loviisa (Fortum) to substitute the old ones, when recommended, in addition to one under construction in Olkiluoto by Siemens/Areva since 2005 and two new ones with a parliament permission to construction in 2010.
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