Annika Lapintie

Annika Anita Lapintie (née Hiltunen, born 18 March 1955) is a Finnish Left Alliance Member of Parliament (1995–2019) and Member of Turku City Council (1989–2012). Lapintie was the chairman of the Left Alliance parliamentary group in Finland from 2006 to 2015. He chaired the Constitutional Affairs Committee from 2015 to 2019.

Biography Lapintie was born in Turku. She graduated from the Kupittaa Community School in 1974. She began her university studies at Åbo Akademi, where she studied Swedish, Russian and education. From there she went on to study law at the University of Turku, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1984. Lapintie qualified as a deputy judge and served as a notary and district judge in the Pargas Magistrate's Court from 1989 to 1990. In 1984, she completed a preparatory course in international affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Lapintie would have been elected if not for the electoral alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Finns Party, which enabled Sari Essayah to enter the parliament. Lapintie was also a candidate for the party in the EU elections in 2014.

Lapintie retired from the parliament in the 2019 parliamentary elections and did not run for office again.

In 2019, the Legal Policy Association Demla awarded Lapintie the 'Defender of Justice' recognition for actively promoting and ensuring the implementation of fundamental and human rights, as well as the rule of law principle.

Since 1983, Lapintie has been married to Pyry Lapintie, who works at the Turku office of Helsingin Sanomat.