Veera Ruoho

{{short description|Finnish police officer, politician and taekwondo athlete}}

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Veera Marita Ruoho (née Liukkonen; born 4 August 1969 in Hirvensalmi) is a Finnish politician and an Olympic Taekwondo practitioner.{{Cite sports-reference | title = Veera Liukkonen| url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/veera-liukkonen-1.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417180113/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/veera-liukkonen-1.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 17 April 2020| access-date = 6 September 2017}}

She participated in the Women's Heavyweight competition in Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, losing in the first round to Canadian Dominique Bosshart.

She was elected to parliament representing the Finns Party in April 2015. She left the party in June 2017 after the election of an ultra-nationalist as its leader, and subsequently announced that she would join the National Coalition Party led by Petteri Orpo.{{cite news|title=Two ex-Finns Party MPs cross floor to boost government ranks|url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/two_ex-finns_party_mps_cross_floor_to_boost_government_ranks/9699125|access-date=6 September 2017|work=Yle Uutiset|date=30 June 2017}} Ruoho took part in the 2019 parliamentary election as a candidate of the National Coalition Party, but was not re-elected.{{cite news|title=Veera Ruoho loikkasi perussuomalaisista kokoomukseen, ja putosi – "Tulivat huutamaan, että eikö minua hävetä"|url=https://www.is.fi/politiikka/art-2000006073386.html|access-date=16 April 2019|work=Ilta-Sanomat |date=16 April 2019}}

She was a police officer before entering politics.