Much-discussed Finnish prime minister (37) hoped for a ‘quieter life’, is now getting a divorce | Abroad

The politician announces the divorce on Wednesday through Instagram. “We have filed the divorce papers. We are thankful for the nineteen years together and our sweet daughter. We are still best friends, close and loving parents.” Marin also writes that the couple continues to form a family with their five-year-old daughter and does not want to comment further on the divorce.

The announced break-up comes a month after Marin announced that he would step down as party leader of the SPD. She had with her party lost the Finnish parliamentary elections and wants to work as a parliamentarian. In her own words, she hoped for ‘a quieter life’. She said her stamina has been “tested at times” in recent years. She also said she had not received offers for international positions, which are rumored to be the case, and did not want to become Finland’s president. She is outgoing prime minister until a new government is formed.

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Marin and Raikkonen got married in 2020. Then the Finnish wrote on Instagram: “We spent our childhood together, grew up together and then parents of our lovely daughter.” At that time, as Prime Minister, Marin was busy fighting the corona pandemic.

A year earlier, three and a half weeks after her 34th birthday, she had become leader of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Finland. Marin became the youngest head of government in the world at the time. “We won’t finish Finland in four years, but it can get better. I want to build a society in which every child can become anything and in which every human being can live and grow old with dignity,” she said at the time.

During her term of office, she managed to get Finland to join NATO – partly thanks to the threat from Russia. Her election defeat comes the same week as Hungary and Turkey’s final approval.

Abroad, Marin sometimes seemed to have star status. She owes this partly to the party video that surfaced of her last August. In it she could be seen dancing with friends, at a house party. She underwent a drug test to prove she hadn’t taken anything. That test was negative. “I’ve never used drugs in my life,” Marin said afterwards during a press conference.

She pointed out that she is just a human being and had no intention of changing her behavior. The prime minister received a lot of support worldwidebecause she showed that even someone with such a responsible job is allowed to have time for a private life.

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But domestically, Marin was under fire for political reasons. Public debt ran high during her reign and, as elsewhere in Europe, inflation was enormous. It seems that the Finns voted mainly against its domestic and economic policies last April.

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