 President Lauri Kristian Relander, an Agrarian, had supported the establishment of that minority government, after the Agrarian Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio's first government had been defeated in a vote of confidence in November 1926.He had advised Tanner to prepare a liberal and moderate government programme, which the Agrarians and Progressives could support.In April 1927 President Relander caught a cold which developed into a life-threatening pneumonia.