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Mogens Jensen

Mogens Jensen

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Context

Jensen has served as a Danish Social Democratic member of parliament and held the combined ministerial portfolio for food, fisheries, equal opportunities and Nordic cooperation from June 2019 to November 2020. (Source: The Danish Parliament — accessed 2026-10-14 (opens in a new tab).)

His ministerial tenure ended during the COVID-19 mink crisis after the government acknowledged that there was not a sufficient legal basis for ordering all mink killed outside infected areas. (Source: Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries — 2020-11-18 (opens in a new tab).)

Record

On 18 November 2020 Jensen announced his resignation as minister, accepting political responsibility for the handling of the mink matter.

Danish reference material identifies the mink case as the defining event ending his ministerial tenure. (Source: Lex.dk — 2026-06-25 (opens in a new tab).)

Consequences

The episode became a major Danish rule-of-law and administrative-accountability controversy because an emergency public-health response moved faster than the legal authority available for part of the order.

Jensen's resignation illustrates ministerial responsibility as a political consequence distinct from later legal or administrative findings about individual officials.