{"id":41972,"date":"2019-12-17T21:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41972"},"modified":"2019-12-17T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:22:23","slug":"estonia-apologizes-after-minister-calls-worlds-youngest-prime-minister-a-sales-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41972","title":{"rendered":"Estonia apologizes after minister calls world&#8217;s youngest prime minister a &#8216;sales girl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/03\/europe\/estonia-minister-calls-female-president-emotional-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Estonia&#8217;s<\/a> President has apologized after the country&#8217;s interior minister mocked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/finland-lapland\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Finland&#8217;s<\/a> newly elected leader and described her as a &#8220;sales girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The leader of Estonia&#8217;s populist far-right party EKRE, Mart Helme, questioned the ability of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/09\/europe\/finland-youngest-prime-minister-sanna-marin-intl-scli\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin<\/a>, 34, to run her country on Sunday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Now we see how one sales girl has become a Prime Minister and how some other street activists and non-educated people have also joined the cabinet,&#8221; Helme said on his party&#8217;s radio talk show Sunday, according to Estonian public broadcaster ERR. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Estonia&#8217;s President has apologized after the country&#8217;s interior minister mocked Finland&#8217;s newly elected leader and described her as a &#8220;sales girl.&#8221;The leader of Estonia&#8217;s populist far-right party EKRE, Mart Helme, questioned the ability of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, 34, to run her country on Sunday. &#8220;Now we see how one sales girl has become&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}