Weiss has been selected as interim mayor by the Social Democratic group at the Copenhagen Municipality city council, political spokesperson Laura Rosenvinge confirmed to newspaper Berlingske.
“Our first deputy lord mayor, Lars Weiss, will be lord mayor again as he has been before,” she said.
Weiss stood in as mayor in 2022 after previous incumbent Frank Jensen was forced to step down over a sexual harassment scandal.
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Outgoing Lord Mayor Hæstorp Andersen is leaving the position to become Minister for Social Affairs and Housing, replacing Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, the government announced on Thursday.
Rosenkrantz-Theil has said she will attempt to become the next mayor of Copenhagen by standing for election.
“I would love to become the candidate for Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. And I’ve now been encouraged to take the jump,” she said in a Facebook post.
To become the new mayor, Rosenkrantz-Theil must be selected by the Copenhagen Social Democrats as their lead candidate or spidskandidat in next year’s local elections.
Hæstorp Andersen was previously an elected member of parliament before leaving in 2014 to become chairperson of the Greater Copenhagen health authority. She has been Lord Mayor of Copenhagen since 2021.
“I am proud and happy. In all the years I have been in politics I have worked for those who are most vulnerable,” the new social affairs minister told newswire Ritzau.
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