34-year-old woman is to become youngest prime minister in world. The new leader is Sanna Marin. She only celebrated her 34th birthday last week. She became head of the Finnish Social Democrats Party last week. Members of her party voted for her in election on Sunday. She received 32 of 61 votes to become chairperson of her party. Ms Marin was minister of transport and communications in Finland. She will take over as Finland's prime minister after her former boss announced that he would be stepping down. ex-prime minister, 57-year-old Antti Rinne, announced last week that he was quitting. Marin will be youngest prime minister in Finland's history.
Sanna Marin said she is very excited at prospect of leading her country. She said: "There's lot of work to be done. First, we'll have to call meeting between ruling parties and review the government program. We have joint government program which glues coalition together." She added that one of her first jobs is to increase popularity of her party with the Finnish people, saying: "We have lot of work ahead to rebuild trust." Marin will lead a coalition government. All of other four leaders in coalition are also women. Marin is new kind of leader. She shares photos of her private, social and political life on her Instagram page.
