Signe Munk leaves the government due to stress.

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Signe Munk steps down from the government due to stress

Minister Signe Munk (SF) is stepping down from the government due to stress and will be replaced by Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt.

Minister for Urban, Rural and Transport Affairs Signe Munk is leaving the government due to stress and will be replaced by Karina Lorentzen, the Prime Minister's Office announces. (Archive photo) (Photo: © Claus Bech, Ritzau Scanpix) 55 min. ago

Minister for Urban, Rural and Transport Affairs Signe Munk (SF) is leaving the government due to a stress-related sick leave.

This is stated in a press release from the Prime Minister's Office.

- I have become ill from stress. And I have decided to step down as minister, Signe Munk elaborates in a post on Facebook.

The SF politician points out that this is not a farewell to politics, "but a step forward towards finding a better balance in life."

- Even though it is difficult, it is the right decision to stop as minister and pass the task on to another skilled politician. Right now, I need peace to find the balance and become fully well again.

Instead, her party colleague Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt will be appointed to the position of Minister for Urban, Rural and Transport Affairs.

Here, Signe Munk and Karina Lorentzen are seen with SF's chairperson, Pia Olsen Dyhr, at the party's summer group meeting in 2023. (Photo: © Mads Claus Rasmussen, Ritzau Scanpix)

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To the King this afternoon

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This will happen when Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen presents the new minister to His Majesty King Frederik at 2:45 PM.

Afterwards, there will be a short doorstep at Amalienborg Palace Square, where Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt will answer questions from the press.

RITZAU

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