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Finland’s prime minister says she’s taken a drug test to prove she has not taken any illicit substances after leaked videos of her partying with a pop star left her dealing with the mother of all political hangovers.
Sanna Marin, 36, has come under scrutiny in her Nordic homeland after clips showing her dancing with friends earlier this month were published and shared widely across social media. One video allegedly shows the married leader dancing closely with Finnish singer Olavi Uusivirta, while another features someone shouting “flour gang”—an apparent reference to cocaine—in the background, according to local media reports.
A European prime minister hasn’t caused this much of a stink just by partying since Boris Johnson’s staffers were drunkenly spewing up in Downing Street. Amid growing outrage from her political opponents and even lawmakers in her own coalition about the possibility that she’d taken drugs, Marin said she’d willingly submitted to a drug test on Friday.