Bill 8472 (\"Heures d'ouverture\"). The Chamber debated it on 16 December 2025, 18 December 2025 and voted on 18 December 2025.
\nSittings: Sitting of 16 December 2025, Sitting of 18 December 2025, Sitting of 18 December 2025
\nThe Chamber debated the agenda proposed by the Conference of Presidents for the last sitting week of 2025; opposition groups asked to remove the Sunday-work bill 8456 and the shop-opening-hours bill 8472, the majority group leaders asked to keep the agenda, and a formal electronic vote adopted the proposed agenda by 34 votes to 25 with no abstentions.
\nTaina Bofferding (LSAP), giving her reasons why the two bills must not be voted on the last sitting day of the year:
\n\n\nDat sinn zwee politesch ganz brisant Dossiere vu grousser gesellschaftlecher Relevanz. Ech mengen, dofir sinn Dausende vu Leit op d’Strooss gaangen. A mir fannen et net richteg, dat um leschte Chambersdag nach séier duerchzebrätschen.
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These are two politically very sensitive files of great social relevance. I think that is why thousands of people took to the street. And we do not find it right to rush this through on the last sitting day of the Chamber.
\nSitting of 16 December 2025, Taina Bofferding, LSAP
\nMarc Baum (déi Lénk), stating what he sees as the Chamber's own role against the government's wish to clear the bills in 2025:
\n\n\nMir sinn duerfir do, Gesetzer no beschtem Wëssen a Gewëssen, an éierbarer Form an am Respekt vum demokratesche Pluralismus ze stëmmen. Mir sinn net duerfir do, der mentaler Befindlechkeet vun enger Regierung ze follegen.
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We are here to vote laws to the best of our knowledge and conscience, in a dignified form and with respect for democratic pluralism. We are not here to follow a government's state of mind.
\nSitting of 16 December 2025, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nSven Clement (Piraten), criticising the timetable that put a bill on the agenda a day and a half after the committee adopted it:
\n\n\nEt kann net sinn, datt e Projet, deen net unanime duerch eng Kommissioun geet, den Dag vun enger Chamberssëtzung moies ugeholl gëtt, fir annerhallwen Dag méi spéit um Ordre du jour ze stoen.
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It cannot be that a bill which does not go through a committee unanimously is adopted on the morning of a sitting day of the Chamber, to stand on the agenda a day and a half later.
\nSitting of 16 December 2025, Sven Clement, Piraten
\n18 December 2025 — Premier vote constitutionnel.
\n| Party | For | Against | Abstain |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| DP | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| LSAP | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| ADR | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| déi gréng | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Piraten | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| déi Lénk | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 33 | 20 | 5 |
Party splits: CSV, DP voted for; LSAP, déi gréng, Piraten, déi Lénk voted against; ADR abstained.
\n1 further votes, one row each. The party columns show how many deputies voted each way.
\n| Vote | Date | For | Against | Abstain | Parties against or abstaining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MO 1 - PL8472 | 18 December 2025 | 25 | 33 | 0 | CSV, DP against |
No deputy voted against the majority of their party in any of these votes.
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