{"id":"seances/2026-05-20-n142","title":"Sitting of 20 May 2026","type":"seance","date":"2026-05-20","html":"<p>Public sitting 142 of the Chamber of Deputies, 20 May 2026. The verbatim text is in <a href=\"/lhoft?page=_sources%2F2026-05-20-n142\" class=\"sourceLink\" data-target=\"_sources/2026-05-20-n142\">Verbatim record</a>.</p>\n<h2>Topics debated</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fhousing\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/housing\">Housing and rents</a>\n<ul>\n<li>During the state-of-the-nation debate the parties reacted to the Prime Minister's housing announcements (VEFA buy-up programme raised by 300 million euros, housing bonds, VEFA law reform); the LSAP tabled a motion asking the government to recognise housing as a structural crisis and to set up a housing crisis unit, and déi gréng tabled a motion on rent rules and on the land-mobilisation and vacancy taxes of projet de loi 8082.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Ftaxation\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/taxation\">Taxation and tax reform</a>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chamber debated the government's announced tax reform, which introduces a single tax class from tax year 2028, together with the cut in corporate tax; déi gréng tabled a motion asking the government to refocus the reform on lower incomes, to add tax brackets at the top and to drop any further general cut in corporate income tax.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fwages-and-purchasing-power\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/wages-and-purchasing-power\">Wages, minimum wage and purchasing power</a>\n<ul>\n<li>The debate covered the index, the announced increase of the social minimum wage on 1 January 2027 and the government's plan to offset part of it, ahead of the tripartite talks the Prime Minister had called.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fpublic-finances\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/public-finances\">State budget and public finances</a>\n<ul>\n<li>Speakers assessed the state budget after the CNFP and Statec revised the deficit upwards, with the opposition attacking the government's financial trajectory and the ADR calling for a debt brake.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fhealth-and-care\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/health-and-care\">Health system and care</a>\n<ul>\n<li>The parties responded to the Prime Minister's statement that there would be no deconventionnement and no two-tier medicine, and to the conflict with the doctors' association AMMD; déi gréng tabled a motion on health workforce planning, psychological care and the shift to ambulatory care.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Feducation-and-schools\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/education-and-schools\">Education and schools</a>\n<ul>\n<li>The debate covered the government's ALPHA project, which offers literacy teaching in French from the coming school year, with the ADR opposing it and the majority defending it.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fclimate-policy\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/climate-policy\">Climate policy</a>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental and climate policy was one of the four areas déi gréng examined, and a motion on speeding up the energy transition, including higher subsidies for heat pumps and electric cars, was tabled; the ADR called instead for the 2035 combustion engine ban to be scrapped.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fdefence\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/defence\">Defence and security</a>\n<ul>\n<li>Speakers discussed Luxembourg's NATO spending trajectory towards the 3.5 percent target by 2035, the announced multilateral defence bank with Canada and the planned binational battalion with Belgium.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Speakers</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Flaurent-zeimet\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/laurent-zeimet\">Laurent Zeimet</a> (CSV) — 44 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Ffred-keup\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/fred-keup\">Fred Keup</a> (ADR) — 23 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fgilles-baum\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/gilles-baum\">Gilles Baum</a> (DP) — 22 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fclaude-wiseler\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/claude-wiseler\">Claude Wiseler</a> (CSV) — 14 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fsam-tanson\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/sam-tanson\">Sam Tanson</a> (déi gréng) — 11 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Ftaina-bofferding\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/taina-bofferding\">Taina Bofferding</a> (LSAP) — 11 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Ftom-weidig\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/tom-weidig\">Tom Weidig</a> (ADR) — 5 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fandre-bauler\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/andre-bauler\">André Bauler</a> (DP) — 3 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Ffranz-fayot\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/franz-fayot\">Franz Fayot</a> (LSAP) — 3 turns</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fcorinne-cahen\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/corinne-cahen\">Corinne Cahen</a> (DP) — 2 turns</li>\n<li>Xavier Bettel (Vice-Premier ministre) — 1 turn</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fmars-di-bartolomeo\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/mars-di-bartolomeo\">Mars Di Bartolomeo</a> (LSAP) — 1 turn</li>\n<li><a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fyves-cruchten\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/yves-cruchten\">Yves Cruchten</a> (LSAP) — 1 turn</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Votes held on 20 May 2026</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MO 1 - Débat état de la nation (Voté)</li>\n<li>MO 2 - Débat état de la nation (Voté)</li>\n<li>MO 3 - Débat état de la nation (Voté)</li>\n<li>MO 4 - Débat état de la nation (Voté)</li>\n<li>MO 5 - Débat état de la nation (Voté)</li>\n</ul>"}