Scandals dent trust in Danish leadership contender Søren Pape Poulsen

Conservative People's Party leader takes poll hit after undisclosed meetings and accusations about husband

One of the leading contenders to become Denmark's next prime minister has stumbled in the polls after revelations of undisclosed meetings and accusations that his husband had made up family links to a former president of the Dominican Republic.

Soren Pape Poulsen, the leader of Denmark's Conservative People's Party, announced last week that his marriage was over after it emerged that his husband, Josue Medina Vasquez Poulsen, had no biological relationship to a former president of the Dominican Republic whom he had claimed as an uncle.