At the end of 2019, Sanna Marin was elected prime minister. In the summer of 2020, she married Markus Räikkönen, the man she had loved since she was a teenager.
Sanna Marin, the prime minister of Finland, and her husband, Markus Räikkönen, have made the announcement that they are divorcing.
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On Wednesday afternoon, the two individuals independently shared the news on their Instagram profiles.
“We have filed for divorce together. We are grateful for 19 years together and for our beloved daughter,” the PM wrote on Wednesday afternoon.
The couple say they remain the best of friends, and will “continue to spend time together as a family and with each other.”
In August 2020, Marin and Räikkönen were united in marriage; they also have a 5-year-old daughter. The wedding, which took place at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Helsinki, was unexpected during Finland’s COVID lockdown break.
But last summer 2022, a video of Marin dancing intently with a Finnish artist made news about her private life. He appears to kiss her neck at one point, but Marin denied any inappropriate behaviour on her part and downplayed the incident.
Marin was officially cleared of any wrongdoing in an investigation, following a number of complaints about her behaviour, and after taking a drugs test which came back negative.
Finland’s Chancellor of Justice said in November that he had “no reason to suspect the prime minister of illegal conduct in the minister’s official position or neglect of duty.”
Marin’s political future unclear
Despite gaining more votes and picking up three extra seats in April’s general election, Marin’s Social Democrats came third in the poll behind two right-wing parties.
Soon after she announced that she would no longer continue as party chairperson, and will step down from the role in September.
Marin has indicated that, in the short term at least, she will continue as a backbench MP.
She currently leads a caretaker government, while negotiations to form a new administration are held between four other parties.
