LSAP president Cruchten replaced Georges Engel as the head of the party’s group in parliament in January. Engel in turn had made the jump from being a member of the Chamber of Deputies to becoming after Dan Kersch resigned from government.

As a result of this reshuffle, Cruchten stepped down from the party leadership. Biancalana is set to replace him until the next party congress, when LSAP members will vote a new leadership. The party has changed its statutes to allow for a joint male-female duo to take the presidency, a system long in place with the Green party and more recently by the Christian democrat CSV.

It is widely expected that health minister Paulette Lenert will be one of the candidates for the leadership positions ahead of the 2023 elections. Lenert became , following Kersch’s departure.

Biancalana is a trained criminologist and since 2018 has been a member of parliament. The 44-year-old has also been serving as the mayor of Dudelange since 2014.

He was also the , voted in parliament last year. The rapporteur’s role is to steer the draft law through the different committees, reporting back to MPs and finally submitting a closing report on the law as it is being submitted to a vote.

The budget rapporteur also gives a speech every year, with Biancalana calling it a budget of recovery and economic revival.

In addition to Kersch, agriculture and social security minister Romain Schneider also stepped down at the beginning of the year, replaced by Claude Haagen who also vacated a , now occupied by Carlo Weber.