Olavi Uusivirta made the announcement on Instagram on Friday, saying the two are just friends and writing in Finnish that “nothing inappropriate has happened.” Fin, 28, said he would not comment further on the matter. “There has been public speculation about the quality of the relationship between me and Prime Minister Sanna Marin,” Uusivirta wrote. “From the bottom of my heart I can say it as it is: we are friends and nothing inappropriate has happened.” A video of the duet surfaced online on Friday, showing Marin, 36, dancing up close to Uusivirta as she beamed with music pounding in the background. At one point, Uusivirta was seen whispering something to the leader or, as some Finnish media have suggested, kissing her. The clip, which clearly shows Marin with Uusivirta despite being secretly recorded in a dark nightclub, was just over a minute long. It’s the latest video to emerge in recent weeks, showing Marin enjoying Helsinki’s nightlife alongside celebrities in the Scandinavian nation. Those videos led a segment of Marin’s constituents to pressure the leader, now occasionally referred to as the “Prime Minister of the Party,” to take a drug test on Friday. The leader said she did it as an act of good faith towards her critics. “I didn’t do anything illegal,” Marin said in Finnish, the BBC reported. “Even in my teenage years I have not used any kind of drugs.” To support Marin, hundreds of Finnish women started posting videos of themselves dancing and partying on social media using the hashtag #solidaritywithsanna. While Marin has shot down allegations that she used drugs at the nightclub, she has not made a public statement about her relationship with Uusivirta — who posted a photo of herself with Marin on Instagram last week but deleted it on Saturday.
