This is stated by the Capital Region of Denmark in a press release on Tuesday.
He replaces Sophie Hæstorp Andersen on 1 August, who will continue as a non-executive member. This gives her more time to focus on the election for the post of mayor in Copenhagen.
It was last year that she announced that she wants to become mayor of Copenhagen in connection with the local elections in November this year. She is her party’s leading candidate for the post.
Lars Gaardhøj will thus hold the post for a few months before the election on 16 November. He is already group chairman of the Social Democrats in the regional council, of which he has been a member since 2010.
– I look forward to the task and approach it with both pride and humility and would like to send a warm thank you to Sophie for her great efforts for the Capital Region, he says.
He now wants to focus on the hospitals having to return to everyday life, it sounds.
– After a formidable effort from our many employees and managers, we have come through the corona really well, and we must now focus on completing the last postponed treatments and operations, while taking care of our staff, says Lars Gaardhøj.
Sophie Hæstorp Andersen states that she is proud of the results that the region has achieved.
– I am proud of the results we have achieved in the region in recent years in developing a more humane healthcare system and, among other things, reducing the waiting times for treatment, regardless of whether you are physically or mentally ill, she says.
Hæstorp Andersen is a former member of the Folketing. She was first elected to the Folketing in 2001, when she was 27 years old.
In 2005, she lost her mandate, but came back in 2007, when Pia Gjellerup stepped down. In the election the same year, Hæstorp Andersen was re-elected. In 2014, she became chairman of the regional council in the Capital Region.
Source: The Nordic Page