League of the Rural People of Finland was a political party, which was established in Oulu

Oulu

Oulu is a city and municipality of inhabitants in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is one of the northernmost larger cities in the world....

 party meeting on 18th - 19th September, 1906. Its chairman was Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi was the first Chairman of Centre Party, then the League of the Rural People of Finland from 1906 to 1908 from 1906 to 1909 . He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1913 from Oulu southern electoral district. He quit the Agrarian League in 1914 and stayed passive...

. In the next party meeting in Seinäjoki

Seinäjoki

Seinäjoki is a city located in Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland. Seinäjoki originated around the Östermyra bruk iron and gunpowder factories founded in 1798. Seinäjoki became a municipality in 1868, market town in 1931 and town in 1960...

, 26th - 27th October, 1906, the opener, Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi was the first Chairman of Centre Party, then the League of the Rural People of Finland from 1906 to 1908 from 1906 to 1909 . He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1913 from Oulu southern electoral district. He quit the Agrarian League in 1914 and stayed passive...

 emphasized that the party is for defending the rights of the rural people. He said "Entisten puolueiden" johtajat olivat "erityisesti kaupunkilaisia, saha- ja tukkuliikkeiden johtajia, virkamiehiä, tehtailijoita ja kauppiaita, joiden kanssa maalaisväestön edut olivat ristiriidassa", (The leaders of the past parties are especially urban people, directors of the saw mills and gross trade companies, civil servants, mill owners and tradesmen, who has conflict of interests with the rural people.

Later the League of the Rural People of Finland and Young Finnish Agrarian League of the Southern Ostrobothnia

Young Finnish Agrarian League of the Southern Ostrobothnia

Young Finnish Agrarian League of the Southern Ostrobothnia was a party established on 21st - 22nd October, 1906 in Kauhava. It worked as an internal fraction of the Young Finnish Party or Constitutional-Fennoman Party . The strong man of the party was Santeri Alkio, who became elected as a...

 merged and formed a new party Agrarian League in 1908 after the general elections of 1907

Finnish parliamentary election, 1907

The Finnish parliamentary election in 1907, in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, was the first parliamentary election in which members of parliament were elected to the new Parliament of Finland by universal suffrage....

 before the elections of 1908

Finnish parliamentary election, 1908

-Issues, Campaign and Results :The Russian Czar Nicholas II dissolved the first modern and democratic Finnish Parliament after its Speaker, Mr. Pehr E. Svinhufvud refused, in the Czar´s opinion, to show enough respect for him when speaking at the parliamentary session´s opening...

Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi

Otto Karhi was the first Chairman of Centre Party, then the League of the Rural People of Finland from 1906 to 1908 from 1906 to 1909 . He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1913 from Oulu southern electoral district. He quit the Agrarian League in 1914 and stayed passive...

became later a Social Democrate as he had borrowed money from the society as a member of it which turned out to be Social Democratic.