Irish Examiner view: Finland knows — a day is a long time in coalition-building

Sanna Marin, 'the world's coolest prime minister', and other party leaders begin the election post-mortem examination this morning 

Finnish prime minister and Social Democratic Party leader Sanna Marin. Picture: Sergei Grits/AP

For a while, she was known as the “coolest” prime minister in the world, a heroine of the centre-left who fought for her right to party. People danced in support and threw shapes for her on social media. She led her country through the pandemic, and into the waiting room of imminent Nato membership.

By the time the print version of the Irish Examiner is in readers’ hands this morning, we will already have seen on IrishExaminer.com whether Sanna Marin has held on to power in Finland, the EU state that shares a 1,340km border with Russia.