SYDNEY – As two of the youngest heads of presidency and amongst a small proportion of feminine world leaders, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin have lengthy confronted questions on their age and gender.
However they have been fast to shoot down a journalist who requested concerning the goal of the first-ever go to to New Zealand by a Finnish prime minister on Wednesday.
“Lots of people shall be questioning are you two assembly simply since you’re related in age and, , bought lots of frequent stuff there,” the journalist stated, throughout a joint information convention in Auckland.
Ardern, 42, was fast to chop off the questioner.
“I ponder whether or not anybody ever requested Barack Obama and John Key in the event that they met as a result of they have been of comparable age,” she stated, in reference to the previous prime ministers of america and New Zealand.
“We, after all, have a better proportion of males in politics, it’s actuality. As a result of two ladies meet it’s not merely due to their gender.”
Marin, 37, who's in New Zealand with a Finnish commerce delegation, emphasised the nation’s rising commerce ties.
“We're assembly as a result of we're prime ministers,” she stated in response.
She ends her go to to the southern hemisphere in Australia later this week.
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