Finland’s 34-year-old transportation minister Sanna Marin, has been selected as the country’s prime minister (PM) on Dec 08, making her the youngest leader in the world to ever hold the PM’s job, Quartz reported.

According to the details, Marin will be taking over from former PM Antii Rinne, who resigned from the position last week after just six months on the job, following controversy over his handling of a postal strike.

Like Rinne, Marin is also a member of the Social Democratic Party, the largest in Finland’s five-member ruling coalition. Finland’s other four parties are also led by women, three of whom are under 35 years old.

RELATED STORIES

Rinne resigned on Tuesday after the Centre Party, said it had lost confidence in him following his handling of a postal strike.

Reports claim that Marin will continue an agenda to reduce carbon emissions, and after winning a narrow party vote against SDP parliamentary group leader Antti Lindtman, Marin told reporters that “We have a lot of work ahead to rebuild trust.”

Marin has had a swift rise in Finnish politics since becoming head of the city council of her industrial hometown of Tampere at the age of 27.

She will take over in the middle of a 3-day wave of strikes, which will halt production at some of Finland’s largest companies from Monday. The Confederation of Finnish Industries estimates the strikes will cost the companies a combined 500 million euros ($550 million) in lost revenue.