Juha Rehula

{{short description|Finnish politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Juha Rehula

| honorific-suffix =

| image = Juha Rehula.jpg

| caption = Juha Rehula in 2009.

| office = Minister of Social Affairs and Health

| primeminister = Matti Vanhanen
Mari Kiviniemi

| term_start = 24 May 2010

| term_end = 22 June 2011

| predecessor = Liisa Hyssälä

| successor = Paula Risikko

| office2 = Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services

| primeminister2 = Juha Sipilä

| term_start2 = 29 May 2015

| term_end2 = 10 July 2017

| predecessor2 = Susanna Huovinen

| successor2 = Annika Saarikko

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|6|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hollola, Finland

| death_date =

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| party = Centre Party

| spouse =

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Juha Tapani Rehula (born 3 June 1963 in Hollola, Finland) is a Finnish politician and the vice chairman of the Finnish Centre Party. Rehula worked as the Minister of Social Affairs and Health in Finland between 2010–2011 and Minister of Family Affairs and Social Services 2015–2017.{{cite web|url= https://www.eduskunta.fi/EN/kansanedustajat/Pages/541.aspx|title= MPs: Juha Rehula |publisher= Parliament of Finland|accessdate= 17 April 2019}} He was a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1996 until 2019.{{cite web|url= https://www.is.fi/politiikka/art-2000006073194.html|title= Juha Rehula putosi eduskunnasta 22 vuoden jälkeen: "Kyllä tämä tietysti yllätys oli" |date= 15 April 2019 |work= Ilta-Sanomat |accessdate= 17 April 2019}}

As a minister of Family Affairs and Social Services, Rehula was one of the three key ministers in the area of social policy and income. The project of negative income tax was shared with Rehula, Minister of Social Affairs and Health Hanna Mäntylä, and Minister of Justice and Labour Jari Lindström.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

In July 2023, Rehula was chosen as the municipal manager of Padasjoki for a temporary one-year-long contract.{{cite web|url= https://yle.fi/a/74-20040483|title= Juha Rehula aloittaa elokuussa Padasjoen määräaikaisena kunnanjohtajana |date= 11 July 2023 |website= Yle |accessdate= 11 July 2023}}

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