“We’re not afraid to face the three parties in the 2018 parliamentary elections, but we criticise their approach,” Claude Wiseler, leader of the opposition, said during the review of their parliamentary activities on Tuesday 18 July.

The chair of the CSV parliamentary group said that the recent declarations by members of the government break with Luxembourg tradition, and this would present a danger.

DP prime minister Xavier Bettel recently said he would renounce the post if certain policies could be agreed on in a coalition, while his deputy prime minister, Étienne Schneider of the LSAP, has confirmed he would want the prime ministerial post if his party won the 2018 elections.

The CSV did not exclude any party as potential coalition partner, except the conservative right-wing ADR.

Wiseler rebuked the accusations that his party was not practising “constructive opposition”, saying that his party proposed different policies, especially in taxation and on family issues.

The CSV candidate for prime minister in the 2018 elections repeated that he was open to discussions to resolve certain problems related to housing.

Wiseler also repeated his party’s opposition to the government’s budgets and spending plans, and argued that with 4% growth, having a deficit was not acceptable. He advocated a new tax reform.

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