With her party videos, the Finnish Prime Minister Marin makes waves - which also arrive on the other side of the Atlantic. Hillary Clinton is now reacting there by showing photographic solidarity.
After criticism for a party video, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin received prominent support: former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted a photo on Twitter showing her dancing exuberantly. "This is me in Cartagena, where I was for a meeting as Secretary of State," Clinton commented on the picture taken in Colombia in April 2012.
Marin was criticized after a video leaked that showed her dancing and partying with friends. Marin then defended her right to privacy and stressed that she had "not missed a single day of work" so far.
On Tuesday, Marin apologized for a photo taken at her Helsinki headquarters. The image, first published on the online service Tiktok and later shared by Finnish media, shows a Finnish influencer and another woman kissing and covering their bare breasts with a sign that reads "Finland" in English. "The photo is inappropriate, I apologize for that," Marin said.
Clinton tweeted a well-known quip from a former Texas governor about a legendary dance duo: "As Ann Richards said, 'Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.' And added to the Finnish Prime Minister's address: "Keep dancing @marinsanna".
The head of government addressed reacted a little later to Clinton's backing. "Thank you Hillary Clinton," Marin wrote on Twitter, captioning the message with a red heart.
The 36-year-old social democrat is the youngest prime minister in Finland's history. When she took office in 2019, she was the youngest head of government in the world at the age of 34.
Hillary Clinton, now 74, was the first woman to be nominated by either major party for the presidency. She won the majority of votes in the 2016 election, but lost to Donald Trump due to the electoral system. Clinton was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama. For the eight years before that, she was a senator for the state of New York.
