After a controversy caused by the online flight of private images, the government’s heading had agreed to submit to a urine test to “dissipate suspicions”.
Le Monde with AFP
The Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, was tested negative after a drug screening that she carried out to “dispel suspicions,” said those around her, Monday, August 22, less than a week after the broadcast on The social networks of a private video showing her partying. These images aroused a wave of criticism in a part of the Finnish political class, part of the opinion arguing on the contrary the right to private life of the 36 -year -old government chief of government.
“The drug test test of Prime Minister Sanna Marin dating from August 19, 2022 did not reveal the presence of drugs,” said the cabinet of M me marin in a press release , adding that the results had been signed by a doctor.
M me marin was tested for the presence of different drugs such as cocaine, amphetamine, cannabis and opioids, told the France-Presse Iida agency Vallin, a special advisor to the Prime Minister. “The test was a complete test. We did not choose the way the test was done,” added Iida Vallin.
“never in my life I have taken drugs”
A video that had leaked last week, showing Sanna Marin dancing and partying with a group of friends and celebrities, had aroused controversy on the Finnish political scene. Some had interpreted the comments heard in the video as referring to narcotics, an interpretation which had provoked animated debates on social networks, but firmly rejected by the Prime Minister.
“To dissipate all suspicion, I did a drug testing test today,” Sanna Marin told journalists on Friday. The Prime Minister had already said that she had “spent an evening with friends” and that the videos had “been filmed in private places”.
She admitted to having drank alcohol. In addition to having refuted to have taken drugs, she added that she had not witnessed any drug taking by those present. “Never in my life, and not even in my youth, I have taken drugs,” she said.
several controversies since 2019
Since his accession to this position in 2019, the one who was a time the youngest head of government in the world has already undergone several waves of criticisms linked to her leisure, his age or his gender. In 2020, hundreds of Finnish had supported him by posing by neckline on social networks, behind the imwithsanna hashtag – “I am with Sanna”. Sanna Marin was then accused of “playing the models” in the midst of a health crisis for posing for a magazine with a black blazer, without anything below.
In December 2021, Sanna Marin had to apologize for having danced to dawn without her phone, ignoring when she was in contact with COVVI-19. She also had to justify herself on breakfast fees.
The joint government of M marin is not spared by attacks, especially of a sexist nature. In 2021, a report published by the Center for Excellence of Strategic Communication of NATO (Stratcom) in Latvia, on the basis of a study carried out in 2020, pointed out the magnitude of the attacks and the” coordinated harassment ” specifically targeting Finnish ministers on Twitter.