Mon 22 August 2022:
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has tested negative in the drug test she took after a video showing her partying with celebrities was leaked, the Cabinet of Ministers said on Monday.
“A drug test taken from Prime Minister Sanna Marin on 19 August 2022 found no drugs,” the government’s press office said.
Marin submitted herself for testing after the videos circulated online last week showing her dancing and singing to pop music at a party with Finnish celebrities.
Politicians in her government coalition and the opposition had called on Marin to take a drug test.
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Marin’s urine sample was tested for the presence of various drugs, such as cocaine, amphetamine, cannabis, and opioids, Iida Vallin, a special adviser to the prime minister, told the AFP news agency.
“The test was a comprehensive drug test. We did not choose how the test was done,” Vallin said.
The prime minister insisted on Friday she had “never in my life” used drugs.
Antti Lindtman, head of Marin’s Social Democratic Party’s parliamentary group, said she “can’t see any major problem with dancing at a private event with friends.”
Marin was the world’s youngest national leader when she was elected in 2019, and last week she insisted that she spends her free time with friends just like other people her age and that she intends to continue being the same person as before.
“I hope that’s accepted. We live in a democracy, and in elections, everyone can decide these issues,” she said.
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