Sanna Marin

Sanna Marin, 34, is Finland's youngest prime minister and, for a while, was the world's most youthful country leader, before Austria's Sebastian Kurz returned to office.

She leads a coalition government that has five women in key positions, three under 34 years of age.

They are finance minister Katri Kulmuni, 32; interior minister Maria Ohisalo, 34; and education minister Li Andersson, 32.

Marin, who began her political career in 2012, is not Finland's first female prime minister: that was Anneli Jäätteenmäki in 2003.

"For me, human rights, equality, or equality of people have never been questions of opinion but the basis of my moral conception," Marin said. "I joined politics because I want to influence how society sees its citizens and their rights.

"Equality means to me that all people have the opportunity to live a good life, to have a decent livelihood and to have an influence and participation in society. The role of politics is to dismantle and change structures that discriminate against people."

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