There were three candidates to succeed Claudia Monti as ombudsman: the director of the Centre for Civil and Commercial Mediation, Jan Kayser; government councillor first class, Claudine Konsbruck; and the director of the National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD), Tine Larsen.

The members of Parliament chose Konsbruck by 51 votes to three for each of her two rivals. Konsbruck joined the justice ministry in 1991 after a brief two-year period at the bar, where she held the position of government councillor first class, in charge of the Paperless Justice project.

At the same time, she pursued a political career. A member of the CSV since 2003, Konsbruck entered the Chamber of Deputies on 3 July 2018 following the resignation of Marc Oberweis. She failed to retain this position in the legislative elections held in October of the same year. Konsbruck served as a member of the Luxembourg City Council from 2011 to 2023. Last September, she was appointed to the board of directors of Hëllef um Terrain (HUT), the successor organisation to Caritas, where she crossed paths with Monti, who, at the end of her term as ombudsman, will chair the board.

Luxembourg created the post of ombudsman in 2004. Since then, three people have held the position: Marc Fischbach, Lydie Err and Claudia Monti. The ombudsman deals with complaints about the operation of state and local administrations, as well as public establishments, and is also responsible for monitoring places of detention.

This article was originally published in French.