Finnish minister Sanna Marin to be world's youngest prime minister at 34

How about this new prime minister?

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The world's youngest prime minister is a woman.

Sanna Marin is expected to be confirmed this week as prime minister of Finland by the country's Parliament.

The 34-year-old was named prime minister Sunday in a 32-29 vote by Finland's ruling Social Democratic Party, according to The Associated Press.

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Marin has been a lawmaker since 2015 and was most recently the minister of transport and communications of Finland. She also served as deputy chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party that elected her.


PHOTO: Sanna Marin is pictured after she was elected to the post of Prime Minister in Helsinki, Finland, Dec. 8, 2019. (Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)
In addition to her age and gender, Finland's new leader is a new mom. She gave birth to her daughter Emma last year.

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The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, who is also in her 30s, last year became only the second elected world leader in modern times to give birth in office, joining the late Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who in 1990 gave birth to daughter Bakhtawar.

Marin will lead a coalition of five parties that are all led by women. Four of the leaders are in their early 30s, according to the AP.

One of Finland's former prime ministers, Alexander Stubb, posted on Twitter that Marin's appointment “shows that #Finland is a modern and progressive country.”



My party is not in government, but I rejoice that the leaders of the five parties in government are female. Shows that #Finland is a modern and progressive country. The majority of my government was also female. One day gender will not matter in government. Meanwhile pioneers.




Finland was one of the first countries in the world to give women full political rights, in 1906, according to UN Women, which calls the country a leader on "issues of gender equality and the empowerment of women."

The country was named the third most gender-equal country in the world in 2017 and the second-best country in the world to be a female in 2016, according to the International Gender Equality Prize, an award established in 2017 to mark Finland’s 100th anniversary of independence and the country's focus on gender equality.

 

We can elect mayor Pete.

 

I know he won't get elected, but he is what we need in this country, young and practical, not looking for some ideal but how to get things done. It does not hurt he have military intelligence background. His sexual preference and his age hurt his chance even among Democrats.