Sanna Marin
Marin submitted along with her three-year-old husband Markus Räikkönen, as they announced on Instagram
Portal in Helsinki
Wed 10 May 2023 4:45pm BST
Finland’s outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin filed for divorce with her three-year-old husband Markus Räikkönen, they said on Instagram on Wednesday.
“We are grateful for the 19 years together and our beloved daughter. We will remain best friends,” they said in separate Instagram stories.
Marin and Raikkonen, who until recently worked at a venture capital firm, have a five-year-old daughter. They married in 2020 while Marin was in office dealing with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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“We lived our youth together, entered adulthood together and became parents to our dear daughter together,” Marin wrote on Instagram after her wedding to Raikkonen in August 2020.
Marin and her Social Democratic Party lost last month’s general election in Finland, trailing behind the right-wing National Coalition and the nationalist Finns Party.
Marin, 37, the world’s youngest prime minister when she took office in 2019, is being looked to by fans around the world as a millennial role model for progressive new leaders, even as voters at home decided on a new government.
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