The Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, is facing a new controversy after a risqué photo of two of her friends in Kesäranta, the official residence of the heads of government, was spread on social networks on Tuesday.
In the photo, uploaded to the TikTok portal, two young women appear kissing with almost naked torsos and hiding their breasts with a sign that says "Finland", with a blue background very similar to the one used by Marin in some official press conferences.
The Finnish president admitted to journalists on Tuesday that the image was taken in Kesäranta and that the two young women in the photo are her friends, although she apologized for the snapshot. “I think that photo is not appropriate, I apologize for that. They shouldn't have taken that photo, but otherwise nothing extraordinary happened that night," Marin told reporters.
The prime minister affirmed that the two young women were part of a group of friends whom she invited to the official residence on July 9, after attending a rock festival in which they took a photo of her in a leather jacket and denim shorts. that went around the world.
“We had a sauna, we went swimming and we were in the garden, but we didn't go into the main building. We only use the guest toilets on the ground floor, which is apparently where that photo was taken," the prime minister said. According to Marin, it was the only private party she has organized in Kesäranta during her vacation and it did not pose any kind of security threat, since the doors of the residence were locked and all the facilities were guarded.
This new controversy comes a few hours after Marin, 36, silenced rumors that he had used drugs at another party, presenting a negative drug test on Monday.
The Finnish president made headlines around the world last week, after leaking a video in which she appears singing and dancing in a private home with a group of friends, with whom she later went to a well-known nightclub in Helsinki. .
The drug test that was carried out last Friday confirms that the president did not consume drugs during a private party with some friends, the Finnish Government Office reported on Monday.
In a brief statement, the Executive pointed out that "no drug was found in the test to which Prime Minister Sanna Marin submitted on August 19, 2022" and said that Marin herself paid for the test out of pocket, which was performed in a private clinic.
The prime minister voluntarily submitted to the drug test "to clean her reputation" and quell the malicious rumors that emerged on social networks, after a video was leaked where Marin sings and dances at a private party.
“Never in my life, not even in my youth, have I used drugs. I wish we lived in a society where my word could be trusted. But since they now want to raise those suspicions, that's why I took the test, "he said on Friday.
