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Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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> Mr Rinne stepped down after a plan to cut wages for hundreds of postal workers led to widespread strikes great to see a politician actually facing consequences for their actions

He is still the leader of the democratic socialist party and prime minister by proxy. Actual concequences would be having a new election and reforming the government. Obviously the current government is against that since they know they are unpopular for their incompetence.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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post #7

Congratulations to her but it seems like age is seen as less of a factor in these countries. From an outside perspective, the Nordic countries have a very by the book form of government. Meaning the government/prime minister isn’t the result of the hopes and dreams of the constituents but more of how do we get things done with the least amount of turmoil. Kind of like how your local city government is run, where thin…

if old people are not fighting to get the job, there 's probably not a lot of power involved

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.

She does have a Masters degree in political administration and experience at various levels of government. It's not like she's come in from the cold.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.

What life experience would qualify you to do this?

Having a person lead a country that will have to live for a longer time with their decisions doesn't strike me as bad.

Through the history, there were lots of young leaders and I don't think that age had much to with how successful they were.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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post #7

Congratulations to her but it seems like age is seen as less of a factor in these countries. From an outside perspective, the Nordic countries have a very by the book form of government. Meaning the government/prime minister isn’t the result of the hopes and dreams of the constituents but more of how do we get things done with the least amount of turmoil. Kind of like how your local city government is run, where thin…

Perhaps that is because many of the Nordic countries are about the population of a large metro area. Finland, for instance, has about 5 million people.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.

On some level it could help getting another approach to governing a country.

60~70 yo people also don’t have nearly enough knowledge and/or wisdom to operate at that scale, and if we’re speaking about impacting the lives of millions of people the difference between 34 and 70 is marginal I think. It should all come down to the system they operate in and how they use it, at the end of the day.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.

In the United States, the minimum age was set to prevent "dynasties." Which means that today, they may have set the age even older, because of extended lifetimes.
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