Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s announcement in a press conference on Wednesday confirms the fact that Finland will have a new prime minister soon.
Sanna Marin, the chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), will step down from her post in autumn, she revealed in a press conference at the Parliament Building on Wednesday.
Marin said that there are many reasons for her decision. Obviously, the results of Finland’s 2023 parliamentary election mattered.
“Now when the results of the election are as they are, in my view, I also do have a chance to look at it from the offset of my own life and point of view, and resort to my own reflection and to open a new page in my own life,” Marin said.
In the election that was held on Sunday, the SDP became the third largest party after the National Coalition Party and the Finns Party. In layman’s terms, the first two are likely to form the new government.
On Wednesday, Marin said that she doesn’t consider it likely that she would accept a ministerial position even if SDP would find its way again into the government. (Marin added later at the press conference that SDP wouldn’t feel comfortable to be sitting in a government pursuing cuts of €6 billion.)
In a nutshell: Finland will have a new prime minister in the next few months.
And Marin is, once again, looking forward to becoming a back-bench MP.
