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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marina at Ruisrock Festival (Instagram photo)
If you look at the picture like this, you wouldn't think that the woman running towards the photographer is a top politician in Europe.
Sanna Marin leads the way in a leather jacket and shorts, the Finnish Prime Minister smiles at the camera.
Ruisrock, the Finnish rock festival, posted the photo on Instagram and tagged Marin.
There is not much more information.
Marin posted a photo of herself and her husband Markus Räikkönen on her own Instagram account.
"The vacation started today," she writes and announces her visit to Ruisrock: "🤟🏻" A few days earlier, she had initiated Finland's entry into NATO.
It is not known what Marin did at Ruisrock, which bands she listened to, how much canned beer she drank and how many mosh pits she survived unharmed.
Did she maybe even have security personnel with her?
At least the Finnish portal MTV Uutiset reports that Marin is said to have been seen in this leather jacket during a state visit to Sweden.
Imagine that with Marin's German counterpart.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a leather jacket at Rock am Ring?
Unthinkable.
Marin presents herself as a cool, young head of government.
Her apparently private visit to Ruisrock isn't so private that she couldn't post a photo of the festival.
Participation in Pride parade
Most recently, she also made headlines with her participation in a Pride parade in Helsinki.
Her summer dress was particularly admired there.
Marin was raised by a single mother who later went on to live with her partner in a same-sex relationship.
Politics is always a language of images.
Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck, who is sitting cross-legged on the platform.
The CDU chairman Friedrich Merz, who lands on Sylt with his private plane - this is also intended to address target groups in the electorate.
And it's probably also a matter of generation and authenticity.
Sanna Marin is only 36 years old.
When the social democrat became Finland's prime minister in December 2019, she was briefly the world's youngest head of government.
You are more likely to believe that you visit a rock festival than Olaf Scholz, that is said to save his honor.
Marin entered Parliament at the age of 29.
Before she got her master's degree in administration, she was chairwoman of the city parliament of Tampere, the third largest city in Finland.
When she became prime minister, she ensured that 11 of the 19 ministerial posts were filled by women.
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