Marin said she hasn't requested for a meal allowance as a PM.

American politics: “but her emails!”

Finnish politics: “but her breakfast bills!”

This is the hot button topic here that the news media is trying to desperately milk for headlines and clicks.

    • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
      3·
      4 years ago

      Sorry to hear that.

      I don’t know anything about your politics, but am I reading it correctly that she’s being pretty reasonable about this?

      • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzOP
        4·
        4 years ago

        Marin has been reasonable about this. This meal allowance is a normal policy for a prime minister living at the official residence, she didn’t even ask for it. In a recent TV interview she just said “I have other things to do rather than deal with these kinds of things all day long”. On Twitter she even had to debunk a rumor that her August 2020 wedding was paid by taxpayers!

        I’m afraid we’re gonna have our full-on Trump moment soon. This is such a preamble to that.

        It would require a victory in the next parliamentary election for the Rudimentary Finns Party, becoming the largest party.