Outgoing Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Wednesday she would resign as Social Democrat party leader.
“Now it’s time to join the ranks again and step down from the party chair’s position,” Marin announced at a press conference, according to Finnish public broadcaster Yle.
Marin, whose Social Democrats were defeated in a national election on Sunday, will be replaced by a new party leader at the next party congress in September, she added. She will continue to sit as a Social Democrat parliamentarian.
Marin became prime minister in 2019 and has been a star of the European left since coming to power.
But faced with concerns at home over Finland’s economic situation, her Social Democrats only came in third in the election, behind the center-right National Coalition Party and the anti-immigration Finns Party.
