Controversy over her private life goes to the heart of the occasionally divisive leader’s appeal

The controversy embroiling Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin’s partying scandal threatens to derail what has appeared until now to be a charmed political career.

Marin, who when she became prime minister aged 34 was the world’s youngest elected leader, is a career politician whose rise through the ranks of Finland’s centre-left Social Democratic party appeared effortless.

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