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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin's Drug Test Comes Back Negative

© AFP 2023 / RONI REKOMAAPrime minister of Finland Sanna Marin holds a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on August 19, 2022, after videos showing her partying and leaked into social media have sparked criticism.
Prime minister of Finland Sanna Marin holds a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on August 19, 2022, after videos showing her partying and leaked into social media have sparked criticism. - Sputnik International, 1920, 22.08.2022
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HELSINKI (Sputnik) - Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has tested negative in the drug test she took after a video showing her partying was leaked, the Cabinet of Ministers said on Monday.
"A drug test taken from Prime Minister Sanna Marin on 19 August 2022 found no drugs," the government’s press office said.
Marin revealed that she had taken a drug test last week as she addressed the leaked videos during a press conference.
"I have never used drugs in my life, not even in my teenage years. Since there's this kind of suspicion, I took a test [...] I also enjoy the presumption of innocence, and I hope that such a claim would not be made," Sanna Marin said.
In a series of clips that were leaked to the Finnish media and social media, Marin was seen partying, by her admission, in a "boisterous way," singing and dancing in an apartment, and then dancing "intimately" with a stranger in a Helsinki nightclub. Marin admitted to consuming alcohol, but strongly denied taking drugs. Nonethless, a number of Finnish lawmakers demanded that she undergo a drug test.
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