Finnish PM: 'I Resent' That Videos of Me Partying Leaked, some call for her to be drug tested

[Demovictory9]

Sanna Marin is known to enjoy the nightlife, but her most recent foray into fun is drawing a good deal of criticism. Finland's 36-year-old prime minister has found herself "in hot water" over videos now circulating on social media that show her partying at a private get-together, "bopping along to Finnish pop music" under purple neon lights, hugging friends, and singing songs, per the Washington Post. TMZ, which shows some of the footage, notes the clips first emerged on an "unknown, private" Instagram account, and that Marin was joined in her revelry by other Finnish luminaries, including celebrities and other politicians.

Criticism: Heat for having a good time came swiftly once the clips popped up online, with some saying she was acting in a way unbecoming of a prime minister, and even possibly posing a national security risk. "The prime minister can, in a sensitive situation, put the weapons of information warfare in the hands of those who would like to hurt Finland," notes an editorial in Finland's Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.

Drug test? That was the call from some of Marin's political rivals, including Mikko Karna, a member of Parliament from the nation's Center Party. (Marin's response to that, to a local outlet, via the Post: "I have not used drugs myself, or anything other than alcohol. I've danced, sung, and partied and done perfectly legal things."

Further response from Marin: The PM is now conceding that she perhaps let loose in a "boisterous way," but she's miffed at the fact that everyone's talking about it at all. "These videos are private and filmed in a private space," she told reporters, per CNN. "I resent that these became known to the public." She added that the video was taken during a night spent with friends at someone's home (she's not giving up whose) over the summer. She also said she didn't believe the leaked clips are part of any kind of blackmailing scheme.

https://www.newser.com/story/324397/finnish-pm-takes-flak-after-leak-of-party-videos.html

[Ocelot II]

1. I wonder if a male PM who was partying hearty like that would be getting as much grief.

BoJo got into trouble for some partying but that was because he violated covid protocols that had been imposed on everyone else. Otherwise he could have danced naked on the tables (and I'm glad he didn't) and gotten away with it.

[spooky3]

2. Seems like political bs and misogyny to me. If it were Trudeau,

Would anyone other than political foes be concerned in the slightest?

[aocommunalpunch]

3. Looks like a great time.

“Unbecoming”? Wait til y’all get some serious deepfakes going on. Best buckle up, Finns.

[LakeArenal]

4. Man o man.... Apparently people want young candidates that act like 70 year olds.

OMG. Dancing and having fun. It is what young people do.

[Victor_c3]

5. There should be no need to defend this video

She’s a person, she likes to let loose responsibly, and I fail to see any reason to criticize her for it.

Even if one of my politicians was found to have been in a sex tape, I wouldn’t see the problem (generally speaking). We’re all people with human needs and we do human things. I would be more alarmed if elected officials lived a totally celibate life than not.

[Effete Snob]

6. People are offended that she's a young woman

That's all this is.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Makes me want to move there

[Efilroft Sul]

8. Some incel needs to get a life.

[world wide wally]

9. Looks like fun to me

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

10. I'd party with her, just sayin...

[artemisia1]

11. Double standard at work here again. Even a relatively progressive nation like Finland can,

apparently, indulge in this from time to time. Were he a male, it would be showing him as a "man of the people", "one you could have a beer with", or "letting go of stress after a hard day's work for the people"...

[PCIntern]

12. She was singing and dancing and having fun...

these sexually repressed creeps wish they had one-tenth of the life in them that she has.

These people are butt plugs of humanity.

[Hortensis]

13. That's "partying"? Lol. For a scandal, expected a bit more.

Sending this to our kids, who are both parents serving their teen-monitoring years. We weren't able to follow them around electronically when they were that age.

[Demovictory9]

17. lol.. When I saw the term "partying", i expected to see her sniffing white powder off a table

not just dancing

[Hortensis]

18. :) Or someone. And there's dancing and there's dancing.

No one gets excited at us dancing like that. Yet at least. Interesting development when your grandkids start refusing to tell you what some new word or gesture means.

[Carlitos Brigante]

14. What do they think she's gonna do, hand her phone to the DJ with

confidential meeting recordings?

[Torchlight]

15. After 4 years of Trump, my definition of

unbecoming behavior by leadership has become much more grounded in the actual nature of unbecoming actions, words, tweets and behavior.

I doubt there's anyone who sincerely thinks there's real, measurable consequence of a person enjoying themselves at a dance party-- except by a few guys who believe anything short of a checking in at a nunnery is actionable only by tarts.

[Midnight Writer]

16. She dances better than Trump.