The center will change its ministerial composition on Friday as Jari Leppä resigns and will be replaced by the Minister for Agriculture and Forestry Antti Kurvinen.
The position of Kurvinen’s Minister of Science and Culture is held by Petri Honkonen, the party’s vice-chairman and MP for the second term.
President Sauli Niinistö approves appointments on Friday morning.
Honkonen, a teacher by profession, says that his new university degrees and culture are quite challenging.
The Member of Parliament for Central Finland will be the first minister in that constituency for seven years. Honkonen has pushed for the idea of forgiving a loan for graduates moving to sparsely populated areas.