False Claims About Husband Hit Danish Conservative Chief in Poll

  • Soren Pape Poulsen retracts claims over husband’s origins
  • Voters are turning on Poulsen with elections around the corner
Soren Pape Poulsen, right, with Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen, Denmark, in February.Photographer: Martin Sylvest/AFP/Getty Images
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A Danish opposition leader is tripping up in an unusual scandal just ahead of a general election.

Soren Pape Poulsen, the leading challenger to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, is hemorrhaging support after acknowledging that he made false claims about the origins of his soon-to-be ex-husband, Josue Medina Vasquez. The two are in the process of divorcing.