American politics: “but her emails!”
Finnish politics: “but her breakfast bills!”
This is the hot button topic here that the news media is trying to desperately milk for headlines and clicks.
American politics: “but her emails!”
Finnish politics: “but her breakfast bills!”
This is the hot button topic here that the news media is trying to desperately milk for headlines and clicks.
Marin has been reasonable about this. This meal allowance is a normal policy for a prime minister living at the official residence, she didn’t even ask for it. In a recent TV interview she just said “I have other things to do rather than deal with these kinds of things all day long”. On Twitter she even had to debunk a rumor that her August 2020 wedding was paid by taxpayers!
It would require a victory in the next parliamentary election for the Rudimentary Finns Party, becoming the largest party.
Which according to the polls might very well happen. It’s still a few years away, though.