Overview
- Hope in Action: A Memoir About the Courage to Lead was released on November 4, recounting Marin’s 2019–2023 tenure as Finland’s prime minister.
- Marin writes that she and the women leading her coalition endured relentless, sexually charged online abuse, including repeated rape threats directed at her personally.
- She says the all-women leadership was derided with labels like the “lipstick government” and the “girl government,” and that their competence was routinely questioned.
- The book revisits her role steering Finland through the Covid-19 pandemic and guiding the country’s application to join NATO following Russia’s 2022 invasion.
- Marin addresses the 2022 partying video controversy, notes her drug test was negative, and argues criticism fixated on her not fitting expectations for a prime minister.