You are right! There is clearly a trend in selecting beautiful women. — javi2541997

And even if young beautiful women can be capable, they are just a few. Marin had been less than a year in a ministerial position (minister of transport) before being selected to be a prime minister and prior 4 years as a member of Parliament. Great, some might say. The video scandal might say something, but she has shown the political inexperience in other ways too. I would grade her as a mediocre+ politician, not a stellar one.

A lot of people resent attractive women for obvious reasons, and may even assume they are unable to do a good job because they are good looking. — Tom Storm

Actually those who pick young women aren't actually who one first think would be picking them. It's usually older women and older people who after being disappointed of their generations politicians want to pick a candidate from the younger generation. The average age of the members in Sanna Marin's party is over 70.

My first wife was a former model and super intelligent but she copped that prejudice all the time. — Tom Storm

Having been a model creates that stigma,unfortunately. Even (or maybe especially) for males too.

This reminds me of the first time a beautiful young woman MP was chosen to a ministerial position in the 1990's by the Centrist Party. As she had been a former Miss Finland beauty pageant, the press sneered just how well "she was coached" to respond to politics and ridiculed her. And of course the tabloid press had her firmly locked in the gossip pages. (And of course there were the gossips, she dated back then the current President of Finland, who was from another party). Yet in my view she looked just as competent as Sanna Marin. Actually it's said that the former Miss Finland wanted first to join the social democrats, but back then they turned her down. She was for 12 years a member of Parliament and now has gone away from the media limelight.

The video scandal might say something, but she has shown the political inexperience in other ways too. I would grade her as a mediocre+ politician, not a stellar one. — ssu

Completely agreed :100:

Current Irish PM:



Previous PM:




Minister of Agriculture:



*Sigh*

Minister of Agriculture: — Baden

Irish potatoes, yummy :yum:

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Previous PM:



Minister of public order and prisons :death: :yikes:

The current Spanish PM seems to fit the male version of good looking. Seems that many times he got into positions as "replacement". And he came to be the party leader eight years ago.

Yet I have to say, the best female politicians are actually those who nobody thinks of being "female politicians", first and foremost, or women... or mothers. When it's their politics, good or bad, that is remembered, then that is true equility.

Pedro Sánchez is the current secretary of socialist party and yes, as you said he got into the power due to replacements. It amazes me his ability to survive each year inside Spanish politics because it seems nobody likes him but he stills remain in power.
He even wrote a book about this skill which is literally named as manual of resistance

There are other sectors of society which call him Mr. Handsome or Prince Pedro

Here we see him talking with (supposedly) his successor in the leftists: Yolanda Díaz.