HEIKKI VESTMAN (NCP), the chairperson of the Parliament’s Constitutional Law Committee, has voiced his displeasure with statements made by Juha Lavapuro, who begins his nine-year term as judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on 1 January.
“I consider any kind of talk that challenges the ruling of a competent body on the prevalent legal situation and the obligation to comply with it harmful for the rule-of-law state – be it from a politician, judge, professor or an ordinary citizen,” Vestman wrote on X on Monday.
