After Finland PM partygate: Do political public figures have a right to party?

Do politicians have the right to party? Videos and photos of 36-year-old Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin letting her hair down and having fun at a private gathering have brought back the age-old question - do people in power have the permission to have fun? In Plato's Apology of Socrates, Socrates states that any just person who becomes involved in politics will be destroyed by the "multitude" and that the philosopher must therefore lead a private life.

Aug 26, 2022, 10:33 AM IST