Denmark’s protection minister has taken sick depart after a checkup

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s protection minister has taken an unspecified depart of absence after feeling in poor health and visiting a Copenhagen hospital for a medical checkup final week.

Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, 49, who can be deputy prime minister, heads the Liberals, a part of Denmark’s ruling three-party coalition.

He wrote on his Fb web page on February 1 that he had “dizziness and complications” and went to the hospital “simply to be protected”. After the examination, he mentioned that “there may be nothing critical to report and I’m feeling effectively once more.”

However he posted on Monday night that he was “pulling the plug” and would “come again after I’m prepared” after looking for recommendation from his physician.

“I’ve been unusually busy for a very long time. Now my physique is sending a sign that it is time to take a break,” Ellemann-Jensen wrote on Fb.

A senior member of the Liberals, Troels Lund Poulsen, will quickly take cost of the protection ministry till Ellemann-Jensen returns. In Elleman-Jensen’s absence, one other senior member of the social gathering, Stephanie Lowes, will take over the management of the Liberals.

15 December – After 42 days of negotiations following the 1 November common election – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen presents a three-party majority coalition that crosses the left-right divide. It contains the centre-right Liberals, the centre-left Social Democrats and the centrist social gathering led by former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who’s now Denmark’s international minister.

It was the primary time in 44 years that such a centrist authorities had been fashioned, ending the 2 blocs that had been at odds with one another for many years.

The three events management 89 seats within the 179-seat parliament and are additionally supported by 4 lawmakers representing the semi-independent Danish areas of Greenland and the Faeroe Islands.

In January. 30, Ellemann-Jensen accompanied Frederiksen and Loke Rasmussen on a one-day go to to Ukraine to fulfill with President Volodymyr Zelensky.