Veera Marita Ruoho (née Liukkonen; born 4 August 1969 in Hirvensalmi) is a Finnish politician and an Olympic Taekwondo practitioner.[1]
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She participated in the Women's Heavyweight competition in Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, losing in the first round to Canadian Dominique Bosshart.[1]
She was elected to parliament representing the Finns Party in April 2015.[1] She left the party in June 2017 after the election of an ultra-nationalist as its leader, and subsequently announced that she would join the National Coalition Party led by Petteri Orpo.[2] Ruoho took part in the 2019 parliamentary election as a candidate of the National Coalition Party, but was not re-elected.[3]
She was a police officer before entering politics.[2]
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