Finland’s Sanna Marlin becomes world youngest prime Minister ever at 34.

She emerged the prime Minister after winning Sunday’s election to replace Prime Minister Antti Rinne who resigned on Tuesday December 3.

Sanna Marlin was the minister of transportation and  will be the world’s youngest serving prime minister when she takes office in the coming days.

Marlin told reporters after wining a narrow vote among the party leadership.

She said;

“We have a lot of work ahead to rebuild trust,”

“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. ”

Marlin who would soon become the youngest sitting prime Minister of Finland and the world at large, rose in politics after becoming head of the city council of her industrial hometown of Tampere at the age of 27.

She will be taking over in the middle of a 3-day wave of strikes, which will halt production at some of Finland’s largest companies from today, Monday December 9.

Four other parties in Finland’s coalition government are also led by women:

The Left Alliance is led by Li Anderson, 32, the Green League is led by Maria Ohisalo, 34.

Centre Party is led by Katri Kulmuni, 32, and Anna-Maja Henriksson, 55, is head of the Swedish People’s party.

Some world leaders in the youngest leaders list include;

Prime Minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Honcharuk who is 35 and New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern who is 39.