Finnish prime minister to divorce, simply months after partying scandal

Finland’s outgoing prime minister introduced Wednesday that she is divorcing her husband – only a few months after she got here beneath fireplace for partying on the job and dancing “intimately” with one other man.

Prime Minister Sanna Marin, 37, and her husband of three years, Markus Raikkonen, shared on Instagram Tales that that they had collectively filed for divorce.  

“We’re grateful for the 19 years collectively and our beloved daughter. We’ll stay finest buddies,” they wrote.

The previous couple married in Aug. 2020, when Finland was grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We have now lived our youth collectively, entered maturity collectively and grown into mother and father for our pricey daughter collectively,” Marin wrote on Instagram on the time.

Marin – who was the world’s youngest prime minister when she was elected at age 34 in 2019 – was compelled to defend her work ethic final August when videos leaked of her partying raucously – together with footage of her grinding against an unknown man.

“[Marin] acted like a single 20-something. It was laborious to imagine that she is married,” one witness instructed the Finnish media of the highest pol’s wild evening out.

Marin later issued a tearful public apology.

“I’m additionally human,” Marin mentioned, including, “I do my job. I be taught from this.”

Regardless of the gaffe, Marin remained common with youthful moderates, lots of whom lauded her as a task mannequin for youthful, progressive Millennial leaders.

She conceded final month after her Social Democratic Social gathering got here up brief in Finland’s parliamentary election. She is predicted to step down as celebration chief when the brand new parliament begins within the fall.

With Publish wires