Finland's prime minister Sanna Marin recordsdata for divorce as she leaves workplace | World News

Finland's outgoing prime minister Sanna Marin and her husband Markus Raikkonen have filed for divorce. Marin and Raikkonen, who till not too long ago labored at a enterprise capital agency, have a five-year-old daughter collectively and married in 2020 after 16 years collectively, reported the Mirror. Raikkonen is a businessman and former skilled footballer.

“Collectively we have filed for divorce. We're grateful for the 19 years collectively and for our beloved daughter,” Marin wrote on Instagram.

“We’re nonetheless finest pals, shut to one another and loving mother and father. Going ahead we'll nonetheless spend time collectively as a household and with one another. We want you'll respect our privateness. We gained’t remark additional on this.”

Marin, 37, is because of depart workplace after her centre-left social gathering misplaced the final election final month. She was the the world’s youngest prime minister when she took workplace in 2019. Leaked footage of Marin dancing and ingesting with pals and celebrities final 12 months made headlines around the globe, with individuals terming her behaviour as inappropriate for a chief minister.

Opposition events demanded that she take a drug take a look at. Marin took one, which proved damaging, to allay considerations about her behaviour and was cleared of misconduct by parliament a number of months later, reported the BBC.

"I danced, sang, and partied - completely authorized issues. And I've by no means been in a scenario the place I've seen or identified of others [using drugs]," Marin mentioned. "I've a household life, I've a piece life and I've free time to spend with my pals. Just about the identical as many individuals my age," she added.

"We now have lived our youth collectively, entered maturity collectively and grown into mother and father for our expensive daughter collectively,” Marin wrote on Instagram after getting married in 2020.