Finland’s ‘Party Prime Minister’ Sanna Marin has lost lost her bid for a second term – as a right-wing coalition...

Finland’s ‘Party Prime Minister’ Sanna Marin has lost lost her bid for a second term – as a right-wing coalition claims victory over her Social Democrats in an extremely tight general election.

Marin, who made global headlines after she was seen dancing wildly in leaked videos, became the world’s youngest prime minister in 2019 at age 34 and had been fighting for a second term just days before Finland’s historic accession to the defence alliance.

But her party has lost out to two conservative parties in an extremely tight three-way race for control of parliament.

She told her supporters: ‘Congratulations to the winner of the elections, congratulations to the (conservative) National Coalition Party, congratulations to the (far-right) Finns Party.Democracy has spoken.’

The centre-right National Coalition Party claimed victory with around 97.7 per cent of the votes counted, coming out on top at 20.7 per cent. They were followed closely by right-wing populist party The Finns with 20.1 per cent, Best Private University while the Social Democrats garnered 19.9 per cent.