Finland’s prime minister resigns after losing election

() — Finland’s left-wing Prime Minister Sanna Marin resigned from her post after losing in parliamentary elections last week.

Marin conceded defeat on Sunday as the right-wing opposition National Coalition Party (PCN) won a hard-fought election.

“The president accepted the government’s request for resignation and has asked it to continue in office until a new government is appointed,” says a Finnish government statement.

Marin has said she would also step down as leader of the Social Democratic party, but would not be replaced until her party’s congress in September.

The prime minister broke the mold by becoming the world’s youngest sitting prime minister in 2019, at the age of 34. She worked as a cashier after finishing high school and was the first in her family to go to college. She entered politics at the age of 20 and quickly rose through the ranks of the centre-left Social Democratic Party.