The time of the Finnish Prime Minister, sanna marin, It ended. The politician who broke the mold by becoming the world’s youngest ruler in 2019, at the age of 34, was more popular abroad than in your own countrywhere his policies were recently questioned, until the decisive mandate from the polls a week ago.
Now he is leaving not only the government, but also the leadership of his center-left party, when Finland prepares to quickly join NATO in the midst of the tensions between the West and the East, where the Russian invasion of the Ukraine stirs up the ghosts of a war escalation that will drag down Europe.
Marine, one heroin to the “Borgen” of Finnish politics, she was, until days ago, the leader of the country’s Social Democratic Party, and headed the ruling coalition made up of the convergence of five lines with different views.
Born into a middle-class family, hers is a story inspirational: She worked as a cashier after graduating from high school, and was the first in her family to attend college. She entered politics at the age of 20, and quickly rose through the ranks of the center-left, becoming something of a pioneer of a new breed of progressives around the world.
Loved by the international press, her electoral misstep was sold as a defeat against misogyny and fascismdetached from reality. The three candidates who received the most votes were all women: Riikka Purra, Sanna Marin and Elina Valtonen. AND seven of the nine games that have representation in parliament are headed by women.
Marín and his party, which added more seats in parliament than in 2019, they lost the election because the majority of the electorate voted to cut government spending out of control, frightened by the speed at which the public debt has been increasing.
The new prime minister Petteri Orpoemerged from a coalition, is just a firm austerity advocate. And his right hand, the Finland’s new head of Finance, another woman, Annika Saarikko. And finally, Finland tends to alternate healthily between center-left and center-right governments, so it is likely that Marin’s party, and even the former prime minister, will rejoin the government in four years’ time.
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