Hillary Clinton on Sunday shared her support for Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who has been making headlines for videos of her dancing, singing and partying with friends.
“As Ann Richards said, ‘Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did.’ She just did it backwards and in high heels,’” Clinton wrote on Twitter, alongside a blurry photo of the former secretary with her hand raised in a crowd.
“Here I am in Cartagena while I was there for a meeting as Secretary of State,” she added.
“Keep dancing @marinsanna.”
Marín faced a mix of criticism and support for videos showing the 36yearold lipsyncing and dancing at parties.
“I am human. During these dark times, I too need some joy, light and fun. And that involves all kinds of photos and videos that I wouldn’t want to see, and I know you wouldn’t want to see. It’s private, it’s joyful and it’s life,” Marín said through tears Address after the video appeared, for translations.
“But I haven’t missed a single day of work, a single assignment, and I never will,” he added.
The Prime Minister admitted to partying and drinking alcohol during the event, but denied taking any drugs and took a drug test to prove it. The test was negative, according to The Guardian.
She told a Finnish newspaper that “it has to be accepted that even the decisionmakers dance, sing and party.”
Clinton praised Marín in 2019, when she was sworn in as the youngest prime minister in the world.
Marin’s popularity rating is near a record high, the New York Times reported. He has led Finland through the COVID19 pandemic with one of the lowest death rates in Europe and supported the country’s move to join NATO after the invasion of Ukraine by from Russia