Lipponen II cabinet

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Lipponen's Second Cabinet
67th Cabinet of Finland
Paavo Lipponen in February 2002
Date formed	15 April 1999
Date dissolved	17 April 2003
People and organisations
Head of state	Martti Ahtisaari Tarja Halonen
Head of government	Paavo Lipponen
Member parties	National Coalition Party Social Democratic Party Green League (Until 31 May 2002) Swedish People's Party Left Alliance
Status in legislature	1999-May 2002 Majority 139 / 200 (70%) June 2002-2003 Majority 128 / 200 (64%)
Opposition party	Center Christian League Reform Finns
History
Election	1999 Finnish parliamentary election
Predecessor	Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet
Successor	Anneli Jäätteenmäki's Cabinet

Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet was the 67th government of Finland. The cabinet was in office from 15 April 1999 to 17 April 2003. It was a center-left majority government, despite the center-right National Coalition Party's inclusion in the cabinet.

The Green League left the government on 31 May 2002 in protest of the government's decision to build the country's fifth nuclear power plant.

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