Ville Matti Niinistö is a Finnish politician. He is a member of the parliament, former chairperson of the Green League and served as Minister of the Environment from 2011 to 2014, and a member of the city council of Turku. Niinistö has a master's degree in political science from the University of Turku. Before being elected to the parliament in 2007 he worked as a doctorate student in political history at the University of Turku in Finland.
Niinistö is the nephew of Sauli Niinistö, the president of Finland. He was married to Maria Wetterstrand, former spokesperson of the Swedish Green Party; they separated in 2012. They have a son, Elias, who was born in 2004, and a daughter, Linnea, born 2007. In his free time Niinistö enjoys reading, role-playing games, and football.In 2013 it was revealed that he drove his Swedish wife's car with Swedish number plates in Finland, while she was absent. The Finnish tax office imposed a €4800 fine on him because of car tax evasion.By 2017 Green League party congress, Niinistö had served two full terms as the chairman and stepped down according to the rules of the party. He was followed by MP Touko Aalto, who won the leadership election on 17 June 2017. In October 2018, Niinistö announced that he would not seek another term in the parliament in the 2019 election.
“Not even Hollywood would consider the script of Fennovoima credible.”
As quoted in Vihreä Lanka https://twitter.com/vihrealanka in July 2015
