Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday endorsed Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, whose alleged love of partying drew criticism around the world.
Clinton placed in your account Twitter a photograph of her dancing with her arm raised, taken in April 2012 at the Habana Cafe in Cartagena, Colombia.
“Here I am in Cartagena traveling to a meeting as Secretary of State,” she wrote, adding, “Keep dancing @marinsanna.”
At 36, the world’s youngest prime minister has become the subject of controversy after videos of her dancing with friends and celebrities were leaked online.
controversy It escalated further after the publication of a photo of two women pulling up their blouses at a party organized in July at the official residence nauticalforcing her to apologize.
The Finnish tabloids renamed it “Sanna the party”.
Hillary ClintonThe 74-year-old led US diplomacy from 2019 to 2013 and was a candidate for the White House in 2016 when she was defeated by Donald Trump. She was also a Senator and First Lady when her husband Bill Clinton held the White House between 1993 and 2001.
EMOTIONAL AND POLITICAL PRICE
These contradictions affected, first of all, on an emotional level. At her party’s rally, Sanna Marin, with tears in her eyes and a trembling voice, announced her unpublished picture, her right to “joy and fun” and criticized the fact that pictures of her private life were made public.
But they also had a political cost, since her figure as an effective prime minister, able to successfully govern pandemic covid, or the process of NATO integration, was undermined for reasons unrelated to the work of his government.
Ilkka Ruostetsaari, professor of political science at the University of Tampere, explains in an interview with EFE that in order to understand the controversy caused by images of the celebrating Marin, one must first understand Finnish political culture.
“We were used to our leaders interacting with other members of the economic, political or cultural elite, but this was something new that nautical parties with influencers and celebrities. After watching the videos, many thought that his behavior was inappropriate for a prime minister,” Ruostetsaari said.
In his opinion, it is clear that there are citizens who are dissatisfied nauticalalthough you obviously have the right to spend your free time as you please.
“There are those who think that it is not very timely that we see First Minister parties, while people are living in very difficult times due to rising inflation, the energy crisis and the war in Ukraine”, he points out.
(AFP)
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