Mika Raatikainen

{{short description|Finnish politician}}

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| office = Member of the Finnish Parliament
for Helsinki

| term_start = 4 July 2014

| term_end = 16 April 2019

| predecessor = Jussi Halla-aho

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| term_start1 = 24 April 2019

| term_end1 = 2 July 2019

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| birth_place = Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

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| nationality = Finnish

| party = The Finns Party

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Mika Pekka Raatikainen (born 7 November 1961) is a Finnish politician, policeman and a member of Finnish Parliament, representing the Finns Party. Raatikainen was born in Helsinki. He was first elected as a substitute member to the parliament in 2011, and became member of parliament on 4 July 2014, when Jussi Halla-aho left to the European Parliament. In the 2015 parliamentary election, Raatikainen got 3,370 votes and got elected.{{cite web |url=http://tulospalvelu.vaalit.fi/E-2015/fi/val01.html |title=Valitut ehdokkaat Helsingin vaalipiiri |publisher=Ministry of Justice |accessdate=24 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427143010/http://tulospalvelu.vaalit.fi/E-2015/fi/val01.html |archivedate=27 April 2015 }}

Raatikainen was not re-elected in the 2019 parliamentary election, but again took the seat of Halla-aho as a substitute in April 2019, due to Halla-aho's ongoing term in the European Parliament.{{cite web |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10750502 |title=Jussi Halla-aho aloittaa kansanedustajan työt heinäkuussa, jatkaa siihen asti Brysselissä |publisher=Yle |date=22 April 2019 |accessdate=26 April 2019}}

Before a career in the politics, Raatikainen had a long career in the Helsinki Police Department, in which he started working in 1983.{{cite web |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/1275.aspx |title= Mika Raatikainen |publisher= Eduskunta|accessdate=24 April 2015}} He has a Lebanese wife, who he first met in Italy in 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1406347055510 |title= Halla-ahon eduskuntapaikan perijän mukaan Suomeen saa tulla töihin |publisher= Helsingin Sanomat |date=27 July 2014 |accessdate=24 April 2014}}