Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, before an interview at the prime minister’s official residence at Kesaranta in Helsinki, Finland, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021.Photo:Roni Rekomaa/Bloomberg via Getty
Roni Rekomaa/Bloomberg via Getty
Former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who made history as theworld’s youngest prime ministerwhen she assumed the top office in 2019, announced her departure from politics on Thursday, according to multiple reports.
Her next position will reportedly be as a strategic counselor for the London-based Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
Marin, a Social Democrat, led a five-party coalition government until April, when Finland’s main conservative party took control of Parliament. She resigned as leader of the Social Democratic Party last week before announcing that she would be giving up the Parliament seat that she’s held since 2015.
Social Democratic Party SDP chair and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin arrives to give her speech to supporters at the SDP election party event, following the Finnish parliamentary elections, on April 2, 2023, in Helsinki.Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty
Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty
As prime minister, Marin received praise for her cabinet’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and her advocacy for Ukraine in light ofRussian aggression. Under her leadership, Finland became NATO’s 31st member nation.
Prior to becoming the world’s youngest prime minister at age 34 — and the nation’s third female leader — Marin served as the Finnish minister of transport and communications.
Sanna Marin Prime minister of Finland as seen arriving at the European Council, walking next to the European flags, flag of Europe and talking to the media while answering questions to the press and journalists.Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty
Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty
In August 2020,Marin married former soccer player Markus Räikkönenin front of close friends and family at Kesäranta, the prime minister’s official residence.
The couple dated for 16 years and share a daughter, Emma Amalia Marin, now 5.
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“Yesterday we said to each other ‘I Do,’" Marinposted on Instagramat the time, according to a translation, alongside an image of her andRäikkönen, now 37.
“I am happy and grateful that I get to share my life with the man I love,” Marin continued. “We have seen and experienced a lot together, shared joys and sorrows, and supported each other at the bottom and in the storm."
source: people.com
