HELSINKI: Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin and her husband Markus Räikkönen have announced to file for divorce after 19 years together.
Marin said on social media, “We’ve filed for divorce together. We’re grateful for 19 years together and our beloved daughter.”
She said, “We’re still good friends, cool to each other and loving parents. We’ll continue to spend time together as a family and with each other.”
According to Finland’s public broadcaster, YLE, Räikkönen and Marin, a businessman and ex-professional footballer, were married in 2020.
The announcement comes after Sanna Marin lost Finland’s parliamentary election in April, with the opposition right-wing National Coalition Party (NCP) claiming victory in a tightly fought contest.
She serves as caretaker prime minister until the new coalition government can be formed.
Though considered the millennial role model for progressive new leaders by followers around the world, at the house, she has faced criticism for her partying and her government’s high public expenditure.
While she remains very famous among many Finns, particularly young moderates, she antagonised few conservatives with high spending on pensions and education.
Marin’s increase to the top of Finnish politics was meteoric.
The initial member of her family to attend university, she entered politics at 20 and quickly moved up the ranks of the centre-left Social Democratic Party.
She became the globe’s youngest prime minister when she took office in 2019 at 34.
