They were waiting for a third man. ‘These chairs are no good,’ Pahvi said. ‘They’re designed for backsides. I have an arse.’Today was the day that Simo Pahvi’s party was to define its future. Its values, strategies and direction.It had all begun forty years earlier with the founding of the Ordinary Smallholders’ Party by Simo Pahvi’s predecessor and mentor, Heikki Hamutta. The party had been his life’s work. Depending on one’s point of view, and which political correspondent one read, Hamutta had been either a dissident, an enemy of the state, a troublemaker, a loudmouth or a saviour. In his own opinion Heikki Hamutta knew the people, trusted the people and wanted to help the people. He had grown up among the people, was a product of the Karelia that had been abandoned to the Russians. The door of the lift to the upper echelons had been open, but Hamutta preferred to go by the stairs and the gravel roads.Heikki Hamutta had made it his mission in life to fight for the big issues of the little man.
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