Finnish PM Takes Drug Test as VIDEO Shows Her 'Visibly Drunk & Dancing Intimately With Stranger'
13:06 GMT 19.08.2022 (Updated: 13:55 GMT 19.08.2022)
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A number of Finnish lawmakers have demanded that Sanna Marin undergo a drug test after several videos were leaked showing the 36-year-old Finnish prime minister partying like there's no tomorrow.
The Finnish prime minister has taken a drug test, with the result expected within a week. The announcement was made during a press conference she called on Friday to address a spate of leaked videos of her partying with friends.
"I have never used drugs in my life, not even in my teenage years. Since there's this kind of suspicion, I took a test [...] I also enjoy the presumption of innocence, and I hope that such a claim would not be made," Sanna Marin said.
A "visibly drunk" Marin has been caught dancing intimately with a stranger at the Teatteri club in Helskinki, a leaked bombshell video shows. The clip shows the stranger apparently kissing the Finnish prime minister's neck or whispering something in her ear, ironically as they danced to The Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling (Tonight's Gonna be a Good Night).
Finnish tabloid Seiska earlier reported that an "inebriated" Marin and her friends moved from partying in an apartment to a restaurant and eventually danced the night away in a club. Witnesses told the tabloid that the party-loving prime minister, who is married and has a four-year-old daughter, appeared to be flirting with several men at the club.
"Sanna danced intimately with at least three different men," one person was quoted as saying, while another quipped, "She also sat on the laps of two different men."
According to the Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE, Marin was not on vacation at the time the videos were filmed. The party is said to have been held on August 6. Marin was supposed to take a break from work from August 5-7, but her mini vacation was scrapped.
Earlier, a series of videos emerged showing the 36-year-old prime minister dancing with friends in a private setting, with one clip showing Marin on the floor singing. Finnish journalists said that they heard Marin’s friends using the words "flour gang" in one of the clips, alleging referring to cocaine. This prompted a number of Finnish lawmakers, including Riikka Purra, chair of the Finns Party, and Mikko Kärnä, member of the Center Party, to demand that Marin undergo a drug test.
The premier has told reporters that alcohol was consumed but she was not aware of any drug use during the party. She has already confessed to partying "in a boisterous way."
"These videos are private and filmed in a private space. I resent that these became known to the public. I spent a night with my friends. We just partied, also in a boisterous way. I danced and sang," she said.
18 August 2022, 13:00 GMT
This is not the first time that Marin's love for parties has caused trouble: she was forced to apologize last year after a photo surfaced showing her in a nightclub, shortly after Finland's foreign minister had tested positive for coronavirus.
"I did wrong. I should have considered the situation more carefully," she said, adding that she is an "individual, a person, a real person also, even though I'm a prime minister. So, I won't change the way I behave. Of course, I have to be careful what I say because it can be represented as the whole government, but I'm still a person and I will be in the future also."
