Finland’s Social Democrats elected Sanna Marin, former transport minister as the new Prime Minister. She is 34 years old making her the youngest head of government in the history of the world.

Sanna Marin narrowly won the vote on Sunday to succeed outgoing leader Antti Rinne, who resigned on Tuesday after losing the Center Party coalition partner’s confidence in his handling of a postal strike.

“We have a lot of work to do to rebuild trust,” Marin told reporters on Sunday night, while deflecting questions about her age.

“I have never thought about my age or gender, I think of the reasons I got into politics and those things for which we have won the trust of the electorate.”

Marin also becomes one of the youngest state leaders in the world at the age of 34, ahead of Ukraine’s 35-year-old Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk.

Since June, former PM Antti Rinne has headed Finland’s five-party center-left coalition, and the appointment of Marin is unlikely to result in significant policy changes by the Social Democrat-led administration.

“We have a shared government programme which we have committed to,” Marin said.

The SDP won the April legislative elections on promises to end years of the Center Party’s introduced economic belt-tightening to lift Finland out of a recession. Rinne stepped down on a plan to cut pay for 700 postal workers after several weeks of political crisis.

Following widespread protests, Finland’s postal service scrapped the reform proposals in November. A concern emerged as to whether or not Rinne had already approved the cutbacks. This lead the Center Party to announce that it had lost its confidence in the prime minister last Monday.

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