Finland’s former prime minister Sanna Marin has highlighted the online sexism her government experienced while in power, in her memoir published on Tuesday.

Marin became the world’s youngest elected head of government in 2019 at the age of 34, running a centre-left coalition with five women party leaders, four under the age of 35.

In her book “Hope in Action: A Memoir About the Courage to Lead” (“Toivo on tekoja” in Finnish), she describes her personal experiences of navigating Finland through the Covid-19 pandemic which hit soon after she took office and how she led the country’s historic NATO membership application process.

AFP has read the Finnish version of the book and translated the quotes from that edition.

Marin went from relative unknown in Finland to one of the most recognise

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