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The '''Centre Party''' (Finnish: '''Suomen Keskusta''') is a [[centrism|center]]-[[Left-wing politics|left]] [[political party]] in [[Finland]]. The party is a member of [[Liberal International]] and the [[European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party]] and subscribed to the liberal manifestos of these organisations. Therefore Centre Party takes nowadays the positon of a [[liberal parties|liberal party]] in the Finnish spectrum. The party was founded in [[1908]] by Santeri Alkio and was then known as the '''[[Agrarianism|Agrarian]] Party''' or ''Maalaisliitto''. The current [[Prime Minister of Finland]] is [[Matti Vanhanen]], who succeeded [[Anneli Jäätteenmäki]].

Although the party has an ideological background in the [[19th century]] [[fennoman]] movement, the party is rather the direct continuation of the [[Estate of the Peasantry]] in the pre-[[1906]] [[diet (assembly)|diet]]s (see: the [[Riksdag of the Estates]]).