Francine Closener is a member of the Chamber of Deputies for LSAP in the Circonscription Centre, with a mandate that started on 2023-10-24.
\n12 June 2024 — presenting the raising of the petition threshold as a change in her proposal
\n\n\nEng aner wichteg a vill diskutéiert Ännerung ass d’Eropsetze vum Seuil, deen eng Petitioun muss erreechen, fir dass et zu engem Débat public ka kommen.
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Another important and much discussed change is raising the threshold a petition must reach for a public debate to take place.
\n\n4 March 2025 — stating her party's preference to round the new threshold down to 5,400 signatures
\n\n\nMeng Partei, d’LSAP, ass, wéi gesot, och fir eng Upassung vum Seuil, mee mir wëllen awer d’Lat net ze héich leeën a bei der Applikatioun vun deem neie Berechnungsmodus op 5.400 Signaturen ofronnen an net op 5.500 opronnen.
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My party, the LSAP, is, as said, also in favour of adjusting the threshold, but we do not want to set the bar too high and, when applying the new calculation method, want to round down to 5,400 signatures and not up to 5,500.
\n\n1 February 2024 — stating that school in Luxembourg does not work as a social lift despite many reforms
\n\n\nMee leider ass et geneesou evident, datt d’Schoul zu Lëtzebuerg trotz deene ville Reformen an de leschte Joren – an et waren der wierklech vill! – als soziale Lift ganz einfach net fonctionéiert.
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But unfortunately it is just as evident that school in Luxembourg, despite the many reforms of recent years, and there really were many, simply does not work as a social lift.
\n\n22 January 2025 — stating a comparative figure on educational inequality in Luxembourg
\n\n\nZu Lëtzebuerg ass de Gruef tëscht benodeelegte Schüler a Schüler aus favoriséierte Milieuen esou grouss wéi a kengem aneren EU-Land.
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In Luxembourg the gap between disadvantaged pupils and pupils from favoured backgrounds is as large as in no other EU country.
\n\n3 December 2025 — setting a limit on what the reform can achieve
\n\n\nDe Projet ALPHA wäert de Problem vun de Bildungsongerechtegkeeten an eisem Schoulsystem aleng net léise kënnen.
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The ALPHA project alone will not be able to solve the problem of educational injustice in our school system.
\n\n17 June 2026 — rejecting two parallel school systems as a long-term model
\n\n\nMee laangfristeg hale mir, d’LSAP, déi Pist net fir de richtege Wee. Mir sinn der Meenung, dass Kanner mat verschiddenen Hannergrënn sollen zesumme léiere kënnen.
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But in the long term we, the LSAP, do not consider that path the right one. We believe that children with different backgrounds should be able to learn together.
\n\n27 June 2024 — stating her party's position that public transport must stay in public hands
\n\n\nMir sinn, Här President, a bleiwen als LSAP der Meenung, datt et kruzial ass, datt den ëffentlechen Transport an ëffentlecher Hand bleift.
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We are, President, and remain as the LSAP of the opinion that it is crucial that public transport stays in public hands.
\n\n12 December 2024 — stating a figure on time lost in traffic jams
\n\n\nVirun zéng Joer hunn d’Leit an der Moyenne 80 Stonnen am Joer am Stau verbruecht, haut sinn et 180 Stonnen, also méi wéi dat duebelt.
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Ten years ago people spent on average 80 hours a year in traffic jams, today it is 180 hours, so more than double.
\n\n24 June 2025 — arguing that the mobile phone should be treated as a symptom and not only as a problem
\n\n\nMir fannen et awer och ganz wichteg, datt een den Handy net nëmmen als Problem, mee och als Symptom kuckt.
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But we also find it very important that the mobile phone is seen not only as a problem, but also as a symptom.
\n\n4 December 2025 — arguing that the market alone does not deliver connectivity
\n\n\nEt ass awer eeben elo net esou, dass de Marché alles reegelt. An déi ultraliberal Approche war nach ni gutt fir all d’Mënschen.
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But it is simply not the case that the market regulates everything. And the ultra-liberal approach has never been good for all people.
\n\n18 March 2025 — stating the number of formal notices issued to childcare structures last year
\n\n\nD’Zuel vun de sougenannte Mises en demeure wéinst Verstéiss géint d’Gesetz ass an de leschte Jore konstant an d’Luucht gaang op zejoert 175 Fäll.
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The number of so-called formal notices for breaches of the law has risen steadily in recent years, to 175 cases last year.
\n\n18 March 2025 — demanding better quality in childcare as an absolute priority
\n\n\nDofir muss ee fir eng besser Qualitéit an der Kannerbetreiung suergen. Dat muss absolutt Prioritéit hunn.
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That is why we must provide for better quality in childcare. That must be an absolute priority.
\n\n15 October 2025 — stating her party's position that the state should back municipal and non-profit childcare
\n\n\nD’LSAP ass der Meenung, datt de Staat zwar op privat Prestatairen net ganz ka verzichten, mee awer an Zukunft d’Gemenge méi soll ënnerstëtzen, fir datt vill méi Gemengecrèchen a konventionéiert Betreiungsstrukturen ouni Profittorientéierung kënnen opmaachen.
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The LSAP is of the opinion that the state cannot do entirely without private providers, but that in future it should support the municipalities more, so that many more municipal crèches and conventioned care structures without a profit motive can open.
\n\n15 October 2025 — asking the minister whether he does not intend to give the municipalities further subsidies
\n\n\nDat heescht an anere Wierder, Dir hutt net wëlles, d’Gemengen a punkto Subsiden do weider ze ënnerstëtzen, fir op dee Wee ze goen, fir dass méi konventionéiert, méi Gemengecrèchë kënne geschafe ginn?
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In other words, you do not intend to support the municipalities further with subsidies, so as to go down that road so that more conventioned crèches and more municipal crèches can be created?
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\n\n\nEt brauch ee kuerz a kloer Delaien, fir datt déi national Parlamenter an och d’Regierunge sech mat de Recommandatioune vum Benelux-Parlament auserneesetzen.
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Short and clear deadlines are needed so that the national parliaments and the governments deal with the recommendations of the Benelux Parliament.
\n\n\nAn all d’Etüde weise jo ëmmer erëm, datt et net eleng d’Sprooch, mee virun allem de sozioekonomeschen Hannergrond ass, deen d’Haaptroll spillt fir dem Kand seng schoulesch Karriär.
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All the studies show again and again that it is not language alone, but above all the socio-economic background that plays the main role in a child's school career.
\n\n\nIwwregens sinn nëmme 27 % vun de Leit, déi zu Lëtzebuerg eng Lizenz an engem Sportsveräin hunn, Meedercher oder Fraen.
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Incidentally, only 27 % of the people who hold a licence in a sports club in Luxembourg are girls or women.
\n\n\nAlso fanne mer eng Etüd iwwert d’Qualitéit dréngend néideg, mee awer sécherlech net an där Form, wéi se hei gefuerdert gouf.
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So we think a study on quality is urgently needed, but certainly not in the form demanded here.
\n\n\nMir wëllen awer och heimadder soen, datt mer net bis zum Enn vun dëser Regierung respektiv vun der Regierungszäit waarden, bis déi neideg Reformen zugonschte vun der Press a vun de Journaliste kommen.
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But we also want to say that we will not wait until the end of this government, or of its term, for the reforms needed for the press and for journalists.
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