Marin,who was 37 years old when she took office in 2019,led Finland’s response to COVID and to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Sanna Marin and Markus Raikkonen married in 2020 while Marin was in office and dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is bitterly ironic that our outsized interest in female leaders,particularly beautiful ones,is the very thing we punish them for in the end.
In the end,the demise of Marin,who championed progressive causes,was not because of any outrage about her private life or forces undermining her.
Marin remains popular at home but her party’s views on the Finnish economy,which emerged as the main campaign theme,were being challenged by conservatives.
Sanna Marin declared liberal democracies had to increase spending on defence and do “whatever it takes” to ensure Russia lost the war.
The communications minister has defended the Labor government’s policy to return the NBN closer to its original design despite fresh admissions it will not be able to recover $31 billion invested into the project.
Australia’s prime minister will meet his Finnish counterpart on Friday. There’s much Australia can learn from her.
Sanna Marin admits she treasures some “joy,light and fun amidst the dark clouds”. Who’d begrudge her some joy?
Marin was engulfed in a storm of criticism following the publication of a private video showing her partying.
Politicians are regularly seen and filmed drinking,so some are calling the fallout from footage of Finnish PM Sanna Marin dancing a double standard.