MPs Claude Wiseler, Martine Hansen, Gilles Roth and Léon Gloden announced that their party had, among other things, asked 398 parliamentary questions, tabled 58 mentions and resolutions, as well as 23 amendments. (Photo: Guy Wolff/Maison Moderne)

MPs Claude Wiseler, Martine Hansen, Gilles Roth and Léon Gloden announced that their party had, among other things, asked 398 parliamentary questions, tabled 58 mentions and resolutions, as well as 23 amendments. (Photo: Guy Wolff/Maison Moderne)

The CSV, the biggest single party in terms of seats, carried out its assessment of the parliamentary year on 19 July, taking the opportunity to present its priorities for the coming months.

The CSV has been in opposition for almost 10 years now and is set on being part of the government in the next term, "The [a national poll on voting intentions carried out by Ilres] are not necessarily in our favour, but in 2018 they had, on the contrary, predicted our presence within the coalition. So I don't necessarily take the results of these polls into account," said CSV deputy co-leader .

In the latest Sonndesfro, the DP-LSAP-dei Gréng coalition emerges even stronger than the 2018 result, with 32 seats in the chamber, while the CSV would lose five MPs, but remained the country's leading political force. “That is also our goal: to remain the strongest party in Luxembourg," confirmed CSV president .

Not much positive about the past year

Regarding the past parliamentary year, deputies Martine Hansen, Claude Wiseler, (co-leader of the faction) and announced that their party had, among other things, asked 398 parliamentary questions, tabled 58 mentions and resolutions, as well as 23 amendments. "But as every year, while we make concrete proposals, the government does not listen to them, even though it advocates transparency,” says Hansen.

And what does the CSV have to say about the past year? "I have to say that I really have to think about answering this question," says Hansen. "The government has handled the crisis in Ukraine very well, and we have supported it, the support for the country, but also the reception of Ukrainian refugees."

But for the CSV, the government has not prioritised the right things, especially regarding the legalisation of recreational cannabis. "It is a subject on which the coalition spends a lot of time, but it is not what our citizens expect. We expect real reforms on education, on our health system, the Kannerklinik... recreational cannabis is not a priority for the country." Free transport was also described as "ideological" by the CSV MPs. "Not all employees can take public transport, especially if they live in rural areas and work shifts," explained Gloden, who is also the mayor of Grevenmacher.

MRI in Grevenmacher "botched"

Grevenmacher has in recent months had to deal with the controversial issue of the MRI in its new private medical centre, , and the outcome of the signing of an agreement with the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg has not yet been announced. "This issue has been completely botched, and the government is not giving any chance to private initiatives", Wiseler said.

The largest opposition party, announced that its priorities for the start of the new parliamentary term in September would be education, taxation and the consequences of the continuing war in Ukraine on the energy market. "I hope that there will be no new problems with regard to food. In any case, we will have a new agrarian law on this subject which has just been tabled and which should come into force at the beginning of 2023", Hansen said.

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