Minister called Finland's new prime minister, Estonia president apologises

Estonia's president has apologised after the country's interior minister called the new prime minister of Finland a party.

President Kerstie Kaljulay said she felt ashamed of the comments of Martin Helme, 70-year-old man who heads the far-right populist party.

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, 34, is the world's newest prime minister.

She heads a centre-left coalition with four other parties, all led by women.

Helme made his comments controversial on his party's radio show.

“Now we see how a saleswoman has become prime minister and as some other street activists and uneducated people have joined the cabinet,” were Helme's comments to Finland's new government cabinet, the BBC writes.

Marin has spoken of her childhood in a household with poor economic conditions. She showed up as a sales assistant before she went to college and started her political career.

She was the first person in her family to finish high school and went to college, followed the periscope.