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Danish defence minister to return from sick leave in August

FILE PHOTO: Danish Defence Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen holds a news conference after the government seminar at KolleKolle in Vaerloese, Denmark February 3, 2023. Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS

Denmark's Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen of the Liberal Party will return to work in August following a 6-month sick leave for stress, Jensen said in a statement on Facebook on Thursday.

Denmark is governed by a rare bipartisan government made up of opposition parties the Social Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and the Liberal Party and the Moderates, a fledgling centrist party.

Jensen announced in early February he would go on sick leave after having experienced stress symptoms and a brief admission to the hospital.

"After consultation with the doctors and psychologists I speak with, I have decided to come back on August 1 when the new political season begins," Jensen said.

Minister for Economic Affairs Troels Lund Poulsen has been acting Defence Minister in Jensen's absence.

(Reporting by Nikolaj Skydsgaard; Editing by Christina Fincher)

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