Heure d'actualité requested by the LSAP group on the situation in the Near East, in which Yves Cruchten tabled motion 1 asking the government to recognise the State of Palestine and Gusty Graas tabled resolution 1 on a ceasefire, hostages and the two-state solution; the foreign minister asked for the motion to be withdrawn, motion 1 was rejected by 40 votes to 17 with 3 abstentions, and the amended resolution 1 was adopted unanimously.
Debate and final vote on bill 8353, the government's package of measures to relaunch the housing market, adopted by 43 votes to 17 after four opposition amendments were rejected, motion 1 was withdrawn and motions 2 and 3 were rejected; the sitting then adopted bills 8357 on individual housing aid, 8358 on housing aid and affordable housing, and 8359 on the Fonds du logement.
The fiscal half of bill 8353 was debated on its own terms: the raised crédit d'impôt on registration duties, a new crédit d'impôt for rental investors, the quarter-rate taxation of capital gains and the accelerated depreciation for new rental dwellings, defended by the finance minister and opposed by LSAP, déi gréng and déi Lénk.