Meet Sanna Marin, the newest prime minister of Finland and the youngest prime minister on earth
“She loves this kind of challenge, because she is very passionate about this government’s progressive policies,” said Maria Mäkynen, a former parliamentary assistant to Marin. The new PM has strong ideological views and"sticks to facts and evidence, and spends a lot of time examining and studying issues at hand,” said Mäkynen.
The new prime minister has been very critical of calls to limit the number of refugees Finland accepts, and has campaigned for the country to be carbon neutral by 2035. She would like to raise income and capital gain taxes in order to improve care for the elderly, and is dead against NATO membership.
“She was head and shoulders above the others and we wanted to give her a chance to prove herself, which she did — and proved many skeptics wrong,” said Pekka Salmi, who was Tampere’s deputy at the time. Marin’s predecessor Rinne was often criticized for being impatient and becoming too involved in the work of other ministers.
“Her goal has always been to reach the top. She has been given many opportunities, but she has always risen to the challenge,” said Johanna Loukaskorpi, a social democrat who is now Tampere’s deputy mayor and has spent many hours campaigning with Marin.
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