Kekkonen in a sentence

Henri Kekkonen, 41, died on 9 May at the home in Dunford Terrace he shared with Christine Kekkonen after she stabbed him in the neck.

Chairman of the Centre Party, Johannes Virolainen, was threatened by Kekkonen with dissolution of parliament when Kekkonen wanted to nominate SDP's Sorsa instead of Virolainen as Prime Minister.

Kekkonen had planned to prevent the parties from forming an anti-Kekkonen alliance to promote Olavi Honka in the 1962 presidential elections by dissolving parliament.

Nevertheless, Kekkonen did not use coercive measures while some prominent politicians, most notably Tuure Junnila ( NCP ) and Veikko Vennamo ( Rural Party ), "branded" themselves as "anti-Kekkonen".

According to biographer Juhani Suomi, Kekkonen gave no thought to resigning until his physical condition began to deteriorate in July 1981.

According to Finnish historians and political journalists, there were at least three reasons why Kekkonen clung on to the Presidency.

According to Seppo Zetterberg, Allan Tiitta, and Pekka Hyvärinen, Kekkonen wanted to force Koivisto to resign to decrease his chances of succeeding him as President.

Although Kekkonen was reelected with two-thirds of the vote, he was so displeased with his opponents and their behaviour that he publicly refused to stand for the presidency again.

Around the same time, Kekkonen's eyesight deteriorated so much that for his last few years in office, all of his official papers had to be typed in block letters.

At times, during evening parties with his friends, Kekkonen got drunk, and he had at least two longtime mistresses.

During Kekkonen's term, the balance of power between the Finnish Government and the President tilted heavily towards the President.

Following the Note Crisis, genuine opposition to Kekkonen disappeared, and he acquired an exceptionally strong—later even autocratic—status as the political leader of Finland.

Fourth term After nine political parties supported Kekkonen's candidacy in the 1978 Presidential election, including the Social Democratic, Centre and National Coalition parties, no serious rivals remained.

He then refused to resign at Kekkonen's request.

However, Kekkonen began to see Karjalainen as a rival instead, and eventually rejected the idea.

However, Kekkonen-era cabinets were often in bitter internal disagreement and alliances formed broke down easily.

Kekkonen consolidated his power within the party by placing supporters of the K-linja in leading roles.

Kekkonen had also suffered from a failing sense of balance since the mid-1970s and from enlargement of his prostate gland since 1974.

Kekkonen was also Minister of the Interior from 1937 to 1939.

Nevertheless, during Kekkonen's presidency, a few parties were represented in most governments—mainly the Centrists, Social Democrats, and Swedish People's Party—while the People's Democrats and Communists were often in government from 1966 onwards.