Sudden death at age 52
Danish party leader suffers cerebral hemorrhage during meeting
March 2, 2024, 9:21 p.m
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Tragedy at a meeting of Danish conservatives in the city of Odense. During the meeting, party leader Poulsen suddenly collapses. His colleagues call an ambulance, but the former justice minister dies of a cerebral hemorrhage on the way to the hospital.
The leader of the Danish Conservatives, Søren Pape Poulsen, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage during a meeting of the party executive committee and died shortly afterwards. The Conservative People’s Party confirmed this to the Ritzau news agency. The 52-year-old former justice minister was taken to a hospital after the meeting in the city of Odense, the party said on its website. But the doctors couldn’t have helped him anymore.
“He collapsed in the middle of the work to which he had dedicated his life. The political life that was supposed to create a better life for the rest of us,” wrote General Secretary Søren Vandsø on the People’s Party website. “He informed us about senior policy and foreign policy considerations, and the last thing he experienced was a big round of applause from his party colleagues.”
Vandsø added: “We will miss Søren, who made our lives better with his patience, his clever mind, his political insight and his deep understanding of other people. He is leaving us far too soon and leaves behind an unimaginable loss.”
Poulsen was once mayor of the city of Viborg, but in 2014 he became chairman of the Conservatives. A year later, the trained freight forwarder was elected to the Danish parliament for the first time. From 2016 to 2019 he held the office of Justice Minister under Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. In 2021, Poulsen married his long-time partner Josué Medina Vásquez. A year later he announced their separation.