The Social Democratic Prime Minister, on March 30 in Helsinki. ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO / AFP
The young leader, whose country has broken with its Russian neighbor and is preparing to join NATO, faces the right and the far right this Sunday.
Finland, former grand duchy of the tsars of Russia, of which we often only know the saunas and the enigmatic films of Aki Kaurismäki, did it exist before Sanna Marin? In December 2019, she put her country in the spotlight by becoming, at only 34 years old, the youngest head of government in the world. At the head of an executive comprising 12 women, out of 19 ministers, she was very quickly confronted with the Covid epidemic, which she knew how to manage with mastery, before preparing with President Sauli Niinistö the accession of her country to NATO. A real revolution. Declaring want ” shake “ the office of Prime Minister, the young elected official, from a modest and homoparental family, also amazed her fellow citizens who saw her pose like a fashion icon on the cover of a magazine, and dance with her friends in discotheque or at festivals.
Credited with a popularity rate of 64% among the Finns, while she puts her mandate on the line during the legislative elections this Sunday…
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