{"id":174648,"date":"2019-12-09T22:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=174648"},"modified":"2019-12-09T21:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:38:21","slug":"34-year-old-woman-becomes-prime-minister-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=174648","title":{"rendered":"34-year-old woman becomes Prime Minister in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/162.247.75.190\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/normal_medium\/public\/pm.jpg?itok=YEFiFs0Z\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Finland\u2019s Social Democrats have elected a 34-year-old woman as Prime Minister of the country, making her the youngest head of government in its history.<\/p>\n<p>AFP reports that Sanna Marin narrowly won Sunday\u2019s vote to replace outgoing leader, Antti Rinne, who resigned on Tuesday after losing the confidence of the coalition partner Centre Party over his handling of a postal strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of work to do to rebuild trust,\u201d Marin told journalists on Sunday night, while deflecting questions about her age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never thought about my age or gender, I think of the reasons I got into politics and those things for which we have won the trust of the electorate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At 34, Marin also becomes one of the world\u2019s youngest state leaders, ahead of Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister, Oleksiy Honcharuk, who is currently 35.<\/p>\n<p>Former PM Antti Rinne had headed Finland\u2019s centre-left five-party coalition since June, and Marin\u2019s appointment is unlikely to lead to significant policy changes by the Social Democrat-led administration.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland\u2019s Social Democrats have elected a 34-year-old woman as Prime Minister of the country, making her the youngest head of government in its history. AFP reports that Sanna Marin narrowly won Sunday\u2019s vote to replace outgoing leader, Antti Rinne, who resigned on Tuesday after losing the confidence of the coalition partner Centre Party over his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[13762,13763],"class_list":["post-174648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-finland","tag-sanna-marin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}