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In January 2024, the Ministry of Family Affairs, Solidarity, Living Together and Reception of Refugees, and the Liaison Office of the European Parliament in Luxembourg launched the "I can vote" awareness campaign.

Voting is an act that allows people with disabilities to exercise their political rights effectively and to influence, even indirectly, decisions that may affect them. In practice, however, there are still obstacles limiting the effective exercise of their rights. As...

Representatives of the press have been invited to the headquarters of The Government IT Centre on 25 May 2023, where the Government Coordinating Office will meet to receive, record and publish the unofficial results of the local elections of 11 June 2023.

According to official records compiled by the Ministry of Home Affairs, 1,483 women (38.55%) and 2,364 men (61.45%) are running in the 11 June elections.

On the occasion of the municipal elections of 11 June 2023, the electoral lists provisionally drawn up by the college of the mayor and aldermen are available for public inspection from 18 to 25 April 2023 inclusive. The attached lists...

Since 20 March 2023 registration for postal voting is open.

The Ministry of State and the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region would like to thank the citizens and municipalities for their participation in the survey on the accessibility of elections, which was carried out through the platform "Zesumme Vereinfachen".

In May 2022, the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region and its partners launched the awareness campaign "I can vote".

On 8 February 2023, the Chamber of Deputies voted unanimously in the first vote on the two bills concerning the merger of the municipalities of Grosbous-Wahl and Bous-Waldbredimus respectively. With these votes, the number of municipalities in Luxembourg was reduced to 100, a first, as the number of communes had not reached this threshold since at least 1840.

The Government wishes to inform those concerned that the date of the next legislative elections will be Sunday, 8 October 2023, in accordance with the provisions of Article 134 of the electoral law.

The verification of the results regarding the number of signatures collected by each municipality gives the following total number.

Today, the Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, has decided that the request for the organisation of a referendum on the proposed revision of Chapters IV and Vbis of the Constitution, submitted by an initiative committee and received on 27 July 2022, is declared admissible as it meets the requirements set by the amended law of 4 February 2005.

Today, a request for a referendum under Article 114 of the Constitution has been submitted to the Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, by an initiative committee in the context of the revision of Chapters IV and Vbis of the Constitution.

Today, the government council adopted the draft law on the rights and duties of local elected representatives as part of the revision of the municipal law.

The Minister for Family Affairs and Integration, Corinne Cahen, the Minister for Home Affairs, Taina Bofferding, and the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, are pleased with yesterday's vote in the Chamber of Deputies on the law amending the amended electoral law of 18 February 2003.

The verification of the results regarding the number of signatures collected by each municipality gives the following total number.

The verification of the results regarding the number of signatures collected by each municipality gives the following total number:

Today, the Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, has decided that the request for the organisation of a referendum on the proposed revision of Chapter II of the Constitution, submitted by an initiative committee and received on 17 March 2022, is declared admissible as it meets the requirements set by the amended law of 4 February 2005.

Today, a request for a referendum under Article 114 of the Constitution has been submitted to the Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, by an initiative committee in the context of the revision of Chapter II of the Constitution.

Today, the Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel, has decided that the request for the organisation of a referendum on the proposed revision of Chapters Ier, II, III, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII of the Constitution, submitted by an initiative committee and received on 4 February 2o22, is declared admissible.