SANNA Marin was elected as Finland’s Prime Minister on December 8 2019. The 34-year-old is now the world’s youngest serving premier. Who is Sanna Marin? Sanna Mirella Marin was born on November 16 1986 in Helsinki. The new Finnish premier grew up in a rented apartment with her single mum who was in a same-sex […]
SANNA Marin was elected as Finland’s Prime Minister on December 8 2019.
The 34-year-old is now the world’s youngest serving premier.
Sanna Mirella Marin was born on November 16 1986 in Helsinki.
The new Finnish premier grew up in a rented apartment with her single mum who was in a same-sex relationship.
Ms Marin told the Menaiset website in 2015 that as a child she felt “invisible” because she couldn’t talk about her family.
But she said her mum was always supportive and made her believe she could do anything she wanted.
She eventually attended Tampere Univesity, and is the first person in her family to be a graduate.
Ms Marin now lives with her partner Markus Räikkönen and they have a 22-month-old daughter.
Finnish report shave labeled her a “rainbow child”.
She is seen as a politician who will appeal to the younger generation, because of her candid use of Instagram.
She once shared a photo of herself breastfeeding her baby on Instagram.
She captioned the photo: “This week, the little one has mostly eaten, that is, without interruption.
“It means that our family barely sleeps. One night I got to sleep while my baby and dad were staying with my mom for the night.”
In another post, she’s seen having a large spoonful of ice cream.
Ms Marin is a Social Democrat MP for Finland, and has been sice 2015.
After she graduated, she had a swift rise in Finnish politics, soon heading her city council of Tamper at the age of 27.
In June she was elected the transport and communications minister.
Despite her “rainbow” family background, she told the Finnish broadcaster YLE on Sunday: “I myself have never thought about my age or my gender, but rather about the issues for which I took on politics and about the reasons for which we were trusted in the elections”.
Marin will head a five-party, center-left coalition. All of her four coalition partners are led by women and three of them are in their early 30s.
The new government, consisting of 12 female and 7 male ministers according to media reports, will be nominated on Tuesday.
Marin, who has spoken about growing up in a disadvantaged family, is a left-winger within her party and a strong defender of Finland’s generous welfare state
She said on Sunday: “We have a lot of work ahead to rebuild trust.
“We have a joint government programme which glues the coalition together.”
Ms Marin will have a finance iniser two years younger than her, in what will be a new women-led coalition cabinet.
