Søren Pape

“The candidate for prime minister Soren Pape Poulsen has claimed for years that her spouse, Josué Medina, is the nephew of the president of the Dominican ...

They even visited his high school, where the director José Luis Sosa supposedly received him, in a meeting in which the official was accompanied by Medina Vásquez himself, according to the director of the institution, José Luis Sosa. In an editorial, the newspaper Ekstra Bladet maintains that it published the story because “it is about fairness, honesty and sincerity. But Ekstra Bladet he just forgets to say that it is completely normal in the Dominican Republic to call his family members further down the family tree, uncles and aunts… This is information that I have mistransmitted, but it was in good faith,” for which he blamed his partner of nine years for having told lies that he repeated. To that story, it was added that Joshua Medina Vasquez He had Jewish roots, which is not true, since the young Dominican comes from an Adventist family that founded a church of that denomination in Los Alcarrizos. Of course, the Danish state has not paid a penny, since it was a private trip, “he explained. It is not entirely clear how they met, but Joshua Medina Vasquez was an intern at the council of the Danish city of Viborg, of which Soren Pape Poulsen He was mayor in 2013. “My better half is from the Dominican Republic, so it was a great joy for me to get to know the country even better on a vacation trip, where we had the opportunity to visit people who could talk about the country. The then ambassador Sven Holmbom sent an official notification stating that Soren Pape Poulsen and two other ministers “have had a meeting with Dominican Foreign Minister Vargas and a courtesy visit to President Medina. He explained that the data given by Joshua Medina Vasquez they are not true. Josué was born in 1985 in Venezuela and became a naturalized Dominican because his parents were from the Dominican Republic. But it is a false and invented story, affirms the former head of state through his lawyer.