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Claude Wiseler will not head CSV list



Claude Wiseler, together with Elisabeth Margue, has been tasked with finding the leader for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne

Claude Wiseler, together with Elisabeth Margue, has been tasked with finding the leader for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne

Claude Wiseler will not be the head of the CSV list in 2018 for the legislative elections scheduled for October. 

Claude WiselerClaude Wiseler will not head the list for the CSV in the next legislative elections, he told RTL on Saturday. This was a decision taken long ago, Wiseler said. When he became president of the CSV, it was not with this objective in mind but with the aim of bringing unity and calm to a party that was then torn by different currents and ambitions within the party.

The spitzenkandidat of the party will be known in a few weeks. It is up to Wiseler and Elisabeth MargueElisabeth Margue to make the best proposal to the party authorities.

This story was first published in French on Paperjam. It has been translated and edited for Delano.