The LSAP candidates for the eastern election district, the smallest district in the country, were unveiled and unanimously approved at the section’s extraordinary congress in Grevenmacher on Monday evening.
The six-people list is spearheaded by the LSAP’s lead candidate, Minister of Health Paulette Lenert. An interesting strategic move as it will mean that the Deputy PM will not go head-to-head with PM Bettel from the Democratic Party in the central election district.
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Co-lead for the LSAP’s eastern section will be 28-year-old district president Ben Streff. Also running are MP Tess Burton (38) from Grevenmacher, who received close to 5,000 votes in the 2018 election, and newly elected Schengen councillor Tom Bellion (59). Running for the first time on a national level will be Prof Kenichi Breden (30), councillor in Junglinster, and Charel Heim (25) from Echternach.
The final addition to the team is 55-year-old Nadine Lang-Boever, former Mertert alderwoman.
The LSAP’s eastern list will need to achieve at least 13% of the votes if they want to improve their 2018 tally. At the time, only Nicolas Schmit made the cut and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. He was eventually replaced by Tess Burton after becoming a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
In the 2018 parliamentary elections, the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) came out on top in the eastern constituency with three seats, followed by the DP with two seats, the Greens with one, and the LSAP also with one seat.
