Background
Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the software engineer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame.
Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the software engineer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame.
Born in Ekenäs, Torvalds worked as a journalist of Finlands Svenska Television from 1982. He has been a correspondent in Moscow and later in Washington, District of Columbia Torvalds is an author and co-writer of books about Russia and the Soviet Union.
Torvalds was active in the Communist Party of Finland since he was a college student in the 1960s. He belonged to the Taistoist (hardline) minority wing.
His political beliefs changed after learning of the atrocities committed against communist sympathizers in Finland.
In 2007 Torvalds was elected to the post of the third vice chairperson of the Swedish People"s Party. In 2008, he was elected in Helsinki City Council for term 2009–2012. Torvalds was a candidate for European Parliament election in 2009 on the Swedish People"s Party list.
He got 14,044 votes which was insufficient for a seat.
On July 5, 2012 he was installed in the European Parliament, after the resignation of Carl Haglund. He was re-elected in the 2014 election.
Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer, everybody understood that the National Security Agency had approached him.
He was elected to the Central Committee of the Party in 1982. In his son Linus" book, he is reported as having lost enthusiasm for Communism.
Quotations: “Has he been approached by the National Security Agency about backdoors?”.
As a Member of the European Parliament he is vice-chair of the Fisheries committee (PECH) and member of the committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). However, later, Linus father, Member of the European Parliament (Member of the European Parliament), revealed that the National Security Agency actually did this.