the Liberal party’s president, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, retires as group chairman.
He will continue to be solely concentrate on the post of the party president. The he says to Ritzau.
– I stop as the group chairman in order to devote myself to the duties as Liberal party president.
As I sat on the gruppeformandsposten, it was as the new president of the also to put my mark on the leadership and to get some rest and something session in the group.
– we have now got. So my task there is done, ” says Ellemann-Jensen.
Leadership will appoint a new chairman on Tuesday. It is the group chairman, who leads the group meetings and eventually, for example, concludes that the party’s position on a particular topic, or what the group must vote for a bill.
Ellemann-Jensen will not reveal, who he sees as his successor as chairman of the parliamentary group.
Ellemann-Jensen was somewhat surprising president of the parliamentary group in september last year, while he also was chairman of the party.
the Left experienced a chaotic period after the general election with the internal strife. It was with then-president Lars Løkke Rasmussen and the then vice-president Kristian Jensen in the lead.
Why would Ellemann-Jensen bring peace in the party, and it was best if he also was chairman, he said.
– It is no secret that there was little high seas in the group after the recent general election. We had been through some troubled months. It was needed to get a handle on the internally, and it is there now, ” says Ellemann-Jensen.
so Far, the former has grown at Karsten Lauritzen (V) has been gruppenæstformand. So he might be a perfect bid as the new group chairman.
But Ellemann-Jensen would not say whom he is pointing. He acknowledges that he made many thoughts of who it could be.
– It seems I’m to be completely up to leadership. Partly because it is the most proper. And partly because I put myself relatively heavily on the process, since we last selected group chairman to propose myself.
– So I don’t have any candidates, says Ellemann-Jensen, who is equivalent to the following, whether Lauritzen is not the obvious choice:
– he could be. I think he has been an excellent gruppenæstformand, so he will certainly be excellent for.
