The day after the opposition demanded that the Filtering of the Financial Prime Minister Sanna Marin for a viral party video, Marin did a drug test and swear he never used illegal drugs. Marin, 36, also said his ability to do his official task remained uninterrupted on Saturday night concerned and he would go to work if he had to do it.
Marin has faced criticism after his party video with influencers and Finnish artists known to become viral on social media. In the video, the Finnish Prime Minister can be seen dancing and singing with his friends. Finnish Prime Minister @marinsanna became the headlines after the party leaked today.
He had previously been criticized for attending too many music festivals & spent too much to party instead of governing. “In the last few days, there have been quite serious public accusations that I am in a room where drugs are used, or that I myself use drugs,” Marin told a press conference.
“I consider this accusation to be very serious and, although I consider a request for an unfair drug test, for my own legal protection and to clear doubts, I have taken a drug test today, the results of which will appear a week.”
Marin, who became the youngest government leader in the world in December 2019, had faced a call from members of his government coalition as well as from the opposition to take drug tests after the video appeared.
Democratic leader Marin said he had never used drugs and that he had not seen anyone doing it at the party he attended. While many praised Marin for combining his demanding work with active personal life, others questioned his decision to let himself be filmed even when promised that the video would not be published.
When Europe was restless by the Russian War in Ukraine, Marin also faced criticism that his party could interfere with his ability to quickly carry out his duties if the crisis suddenly hit Finland. “If there is a crisis, I will find out before midnight on Saturday night,” he told reporters that the Finnish armed forces were well equipped to anticipate the military crisis that might affect the country. Finland, who shared the long land border with Russia, had applied together with Swedish neighbors to join NATO after the war in Ukraine.