Sanna Marin

Finland's tearful prime minister apologised after the publication of a photo that showed two women kissing and posing topless at the official summer ...

In the video leaked last week, Marin appeared with friends at a different private party. The results were negative, Marin reported Monday, adding she paid for the test herself. Marin confirmed the photo was taken in a bathroom at an official residence of Finnish prime ministers following a music festival in early July. But I want to believe that people look at the work we do, not what we do in our free time." "I am also human," Finnish media quoted Marin as saying with a broken voice and red eyes. I learn from this," Marin said.

Leader defends work ethic and describes week in which she has been forced to defend her private life as 'quite difficult'

[told reporters](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/finlands-pm-sanna-marin-takes-drug-test-after-videos-show-her-drinking-and-dancing) she had never personally taken drugs and had not seen any being used at the party in a Helsinki flat on 6 August, the prime minister took a drugs test “to clear up suspicions”. “I feel like footage is being shot of me all the time, everywhere, and it doesn’t feel good,” “Everyone sees her as very capable of doing her job,” one MP said. “She has incredible stamina, parties wildly and also takes care of her work. Asked whether she would change anything in her behaviour, Marin said that she did not personally see anything wrong with “we politicians also having free time, spending it with our friends”. Finland is still a relatively conservative country, especially outside the capital region.” On the verge of tears, she said she too sometimes longs “for joy, light and fun amidst the dark clouds”. It shows her and another woman – not Marin – kissing and lifting up their tops, with a “Finland” sign over their breasts. But some allies are wearying of the furore. “I think the picture is not appropriate, I apologise for it. The 36-year-old, the world’s youngest head of government when she was elected in 2019, added: “I haven’t missed a single day of work. Such a picture should not have been taken,” Marin said.

On Wednesday (local time), the prime minister addressed a crowd in the southern Finland town of Lathi and mentioned the glimpses of her private life that became ...

[In the video leaked last week](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300665557/supporters-defend-finnish-prime-ministers-right-to-party-after-video-leak), Marin appeared with friends at a different private party. Didn't I say she's immature?— The Retrospective (@TRetrospective) Marin does not appear in the image; the two women featured have their breasts covered with a sign that says, “Finland.” [to join NATO](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300588883/ukraine-war-finland-confirms-nato-bid-as-alliance-says-russia-is-losing-momentum). Second, this photo was taken during a party at official PM summer residence (paid by tax payers). The plot thickens. 😉 First, normally drug testees can't delay the test two weeks. [a video that showed Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing and singing ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300474431/finlands-prime-minister-apologises-after-partying-all-night-despite-covid19-exposure)with friends [prompted a debate](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300666878/finland-asks-can-a-prime-minister-party-like-a-rock-star) about whether the [36-year-old head of government is entitled to party heartily.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300669258/finnish-women-are-dancing-in-solidarity-with-pm-sanna-marin) “This week has not been easy. It has been difficult. * [publication of a photo showed two women kissing and posing topless at the official summer residence of the country's leader](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300669351/finland-prime-ministers-friends-posed-topless-at-her-desk).

Sanna Marin, the prime minister of Finland, has expressed regret over a topless photo of visitors taken at her official residence.

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The controversy embroiling Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin's partying scandal threatens to derail what has appeared until now to be a charmed political ...

When Marin graduated, she was the first member of her family to receive a degree. Initially she continued living in her private flat and shopping at the local supermarket. The timing is inopportune: Marin’s party is trailing the centre-right National Coalition party in the polls, and it looks probable that she will no longer be prime minister come the 2023 general election. The partying controversy goes to the heart of what makes Marin such an appealing, but occasionally divisive, leader. But she later apologised after photographs of her friends posing topless After the birth of her daughter Emma in 2018, Marin and Räikkönen split [their parental leave equally](https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/sanna-marin-finland-prime-minister-interview), and she has spoken about why she felt it was so important that both spent time at home. This work ethic stems from childhood: Marin’s parents separated when she was a child, and money was tight. She is known to personally provide journalists with briefing documents outlining their key areas of interest during interviews, and wait for them to read it. International attention inevitably followed: Marin helmed a five-party coalition in which every leader was female, and most aged under 40. (After torturous discussion, the tram project eventually passed.) [took a drugs test](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/finlands-pm-sanna-marin-takes-drug-test-after-videos-show-her-drinking-and-dancing) (which came back negative) after footage emerged of her dancing and drinking with friends at a private party, and later [at a Helsinki nightclub](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19590145/finland-sanna-marin-dances-grinds-model-nightclub-video-2/) with a group of musicians, models and social media influencers. [breastfeeding selfies](https://medium.com/the-daily-mindful/sanna-marin-worlds-youngest-female-leader-of-a-country-shared-this-breastfeeding-photo-for-a-9a63ae859fb1), or the modest [millennial-style](https://www.instagram.com/p/Be-uYPhjZZr/?hl=en) [ flat](https://www.instagram.com/p/Be-uYPhjZZr/) she shared with her husband, Markus Räikkönen, prior to becoming prime minister.

If you're shocked at the footage of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing at a private party, wait until you hear what her male counterparts have been ...

Conversely, when Marin partied with her friends in the privacy of her home, she is somehow unfit to lead and a danger to her people. There are a great deal of very successful male politicians who have done far worse; whose 'misdemeanours' are overlooked and quickly forgotten in favour of them being a 'bit of a lad'. It’s not just in the UK that male politicians have demonstrated their love of a boisterous party. A man who has been on holiday for most of the summer, pointedly making himself unavailable for work as the majority of the UK struggles to pay their bills. So scandalised were the media and certain Finnish politicians by the sight of a woman enjoying time off with friends that Marin was forced to not only apologise, but also to take a drug test to clear her name. In response, the good women of Finland have since started sharing videos of themselves partying to show solidarity with their PM.

A succession of embarrassing revelations for the Prime Minister has lead even some notoriously pragmatic Finns to question how much partying is too much.

A poll this week found that only 21 per cent of Finns think she spends too much time partying, and 42 per cent “strongly agree” that the prime minister should be able to relax and enjoy herself in her free time. On Wednesday, while speaking at a market in the southern town of Lahti, she tearfully admitted, “I am human. After a stint leading the Tampere city council, she was first elected to Finland’s parliament in 2015, and was briefly transport minister before becoming prime minister. “That she didn’t restrain herself in a company where she cannot trust everyone in the room,” Ms Koivunen said. In the United States, former President Donald Trump is facing a series of investigations and lawsuits, and his Florida home was last week raided by FBI agents. She retains the support of most Finns, with some women Critics say Ms Marin’s partying ways have left her open to Kremlin “kompromat”, embarrassing information that could be used to blackmail her, with some even suggesting Moscow was behind the leaks. Ms Marin has brushed off the accusations, insisting she did nothing wrong. She has blazed a trail as a hip, millennial woman in a forest of grey, suited men, speaking out on issues like equal rights and climate change. She also said sorry this week when pictures emerged of two women who had posed topless in her official prime minister’s residence after a music festival. In another leaked clip, from a Helsinki bar, Finnish rock singer Olavi Uusivirta is seen dancing hip-to-hip with her, seemingly leaning to for a kiss – although both he and Ms Marin, a married mother, denied this. However, the smart and chic 36-year-old’s penchant for partying like a rock star is raising eyebrows, even for a laid-back Nordic nation that prides itself on its pragmatic approach to life.

Finland's prime minister on Wednesday gave a forceful defence of her work record and her right to a private life after criticism sparked by a video of the ...

"But I haven't missed a single day of work." "I am human. Finland's prime minister on Wednesday gave a forceful defence of her work record and her right to a private life after criticism sparked by a video of the 36-year-old partying.

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has defended her 'human' desire to have fun following the controversy around leaked footage of her partying.

The videos of Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin singing and dancing with Finnish celebrities and influencers have left the usually tolerant Finnish and ...

Recently, Indian politician Rahul Gandhi was caught in the eye of a controversy after he was seen dancing and enjoying himself at a party. She said the partying itself was not a big issue, but the fact the video leaked could be viewed as a judgment lapse by the prime minister in terms of the people she surrounded herself with. In January last year, Marin told the media that she and her fellow young female ministers often faced extensive hate speech for their gender and appearance while in office. That kind of a picture should not have been taken but otherwise, nothing extraordinary happened at the get-together,” confirming the photo was from her residence. Social media was flooded with criticism and outrage over Marin’s partying ways, which soon led to a sea of support for the Social Democratic Party leader whose centre-left politics often make her a target for conservative gripe. In Plato's Apology of Socrates, Socrates states that any just person who becomes involved in politics will be destroyed by the "multitude" and that the philosopher must therefore lead a private life.

People in Finland have been discussing little else besides Prime Minister Sanna Marin's "partying," after a viral video showed her dancing in a "boisterous" ...

Instead, she is publicly releasing her drug test results and explaining the intricacies of her social life to the entire world. this week found that just 21% of Finns believe she spends too much time partying, and 42% "strongly agree" the the prime minister should be able to relax and enjoy herself in her free time. That is where I personally find the biggest reason to fault her: That degree of naivete is worrisome in any politician. But she is also competent and serious-minded (except perhaps at private parties with cell phone video cameras recording.) One other thing to note is that the images of Marin were not taken surreptitiously. . She has shown us that politicians can enjoy the ordinary pleasures of life. In short, many Finns -- so far at least -- have her back. While not all of us are posting dance videos, "stand with Sanna" seems to be the consensus view among Finns. But most of the criticism has been of the "who's minding the store?" Marin disclosed that she attended the party in recent weeks, but has declined to say exactly where or when. that she had used poor judgment in violating health protocols that required that she isolate from the public. Video showed Marin, laughing, cavorting, hips swiveling -- having frankly, what seemed to be the time of her life -- at what she later told the press was a private party with friends.