34-year-old Finland newly elected Prime Minister, Sanna Marin will be the world’s youngest serving prime minister when she takes office in the coming days after winning Sunday’s election to replace Prime Minister Antti Rinne who resigned on Tuesday December 3
Marin who will become the world’s youngest sitting prime minister, had a swift rise in Finnish politics since becoming head of the city council of her industrial hometown of Tampere at the age of 27.
She will be taking over in the middle of a 3-day wave of strikes, which will halt production at some of Finland’s largest companies from Monday December 9. The Confederation of Finnish Industries estimates the strikes will cost the companies a combined 500 million euros (US$550 million) in lost revenue