Danish Conservative People's Party leader Soren Pape Poulsen dies, party says

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Leader of the Conservative People's Party Soren Pape Poulsen at the opening of the Parliament Folketinget at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark October 4, 2022. Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS/File Photo

Leader of the Conservative People's Party Soren Pape Poulsen at the opening of the Parliament Folketinget at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark October 4, 2022. Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS/File Photo

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COPENHAGEN - Soren Pape Poulsen, the leader of Denmark's opposition Conservative People's Party, died on Saturday after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, his party said. He was 52.

Poulsen, a former justice minister, had collapsed during a party meeting and had been rushed to hospital, his party said in a statement.

"He collapsed in the middle of what he had devoted his life to ... the last thing he experienced was a big round of applause from his party colleagues," it said. REUTERS

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