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The Newest Scandal of Finnish PM Sanna Marin

You’ll never guess what it is.

Taru Anniina Liikanen
5 min readJun 11, 2022

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Photo by Bluewater Sweden on Unsplash

Okay, I’m just going to spoil this right away and not make you scroll all the way until the end, because I don’t believe in that kind of thing. The headline is already clickbaity enough.

Sanna Marin was seen in public wearing leggings. Light-colored leggings.

The Sexy Politician

You may have heard of Finland’s 36-year-old Prime Minister, Social Democrat Sanna Marin, a popular but scandalous leader.

She’s been in the news for numerous incredible situations, such as showing cleavage in an interview with a fashion magazine. She was wearing a blazer without a shirt. But not to work, of course. It was for a photo shoot with a fashion magazine.

Source: Instagram @ trendimag.

People went nuts.

This is too sexy! We can’t have politicians in fashion magazines! How can anyone respect a woman with *gasp* skin?

As a response, women started a campaign on Instagram wearing “too sexy” blazers, but the message from the old guard — politicians and journalists — was clear: we can allow a young woman to lead

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Taru Anniina Liikanen
Taru Anniina Liikanen

Written by Taru Anniina Liikanen

Stand-up comedian and recovering political ghostwriter. Finnish by birth, porteña at heart. Bad jokes frequent.

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