New video released of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, 36, who is married and has a four-year-old daughter, shows her dancing at a party in an apparent intimate manner with a man who is not her husband.
The new video follows an initial video from the same party that was released earlier this week and showed her dancing provocatively, catalyzing questions as to whether she was doing drugs. Marin denied that accusation, although partygoers could be heard chanting the slang name for cocaine at the party.
Finnish tabloid Seiska posted the new video on Friday, revealing Marin in close contact and hugging a mystery man who is nuzzling her neck. One witness told Seiska that Marin was “clearly intoxicated” and “danced intimately with at least three different men,” adding that she “sat on the laps of two different men. … She acted like a single 20-something. It was hard to believe that she is married,” the New York Post reported.
Marin had protested that she was not using drugs after a first video leaked showing her dancing wildly with her friends.
Marin’s protestations came in response to people who asked whether she had taken drugs during the party, with Finnish MP Mikko Kärnäeven even asking her to take a drug test.
“I have nothing to conceal or hide, and I haven’t done anything illegal,” she said on Thursday. “I still don’t know that anything illegal has happened. It would hardly be a police matter then.”
“Personally, I did not take drugs, nor did I consume anything other than alcohol. I danced, sang, and partied — perfectly legal things. And I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve seen or known of others [using drugs],” she asserted.
“In the leaked video footage, unidentified people are heard shouting about ‘flour,’ which is a slang term for cocaine in Finland,” The Telegraph noted.
Finland’s Prime Minister @MarinSanna is in the headlines after a video of her partying was leaked today.
She has previously been criticized for attending too many music festivals & spending too much on partying instead of ruling.
The critics say it’s not fitting for a PM. pic.twitter.com/FbOhdTeEGw
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 17, 2022
Marin said the videos came from a party that started in two apartments and continued in two bars.
“Even there I sang, danced and hugged my friends and drank alcohol,” she admitted, adding, “These are private videos and are not intended for the public. … I’m still going to be friends with my friends.”
“I have a family life, I have a work life and I have free time to spend with my friends. Pretty much the same as many people my age,” she told reporters, according to the BBC. “I am going to be exactly the same person as I have been until now and I hope that it will be accepted.”
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