In a Facebook post published on Wednesday afternoon, Delles said that he will present his application during the party’s congress on 12 June, stating that he has “great respect for this task. Parties are the pivot between society and politics.”  

The government’s youngest minister, Delles is aged 37 and is currently the DP’s vice-president. Family minister Corinne Cahen currently presides the party, though she confirmed she did not wish to renew her mandate.

in his statement, Delles, who was a primary school teacher before entering the political sphere, also says that he wants to “contribute to finding solutions for the big challenges of our times and the many daily challenges of our society” concluding that he wants to be not at the front of the party but “at its centre”. 

Delles was appointed first alderman of Mondorf-les-Bains after his first participation in the municipal elections in 2011. Following the 2013 national elections, Delles entered parliament. And he was promoted to mayor of Mondorf in 2014 when incumbent Maggy Nagel became a minister in the first DP-LSAP-Déi Gréng coalition, making him Luxembourg’s youngest deputé-maire.

He says that he has always been part of the DP, as his “father already took him along to marches as a child,” and that he “grew up in the DP and the values of the DP like freedom, responsibility and solidarity” which influenced his whole life.