Lucien Lux (born 13 September 1956 in

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) is a politician and

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ist from

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. He was a member of the

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representing the

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from 1989 to 2013. He served as a minister in the first

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of prime minister

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, from 2004 until 2009. He later retired from the chamber and was appointed to the

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. In 2023, Lux received the council's first reprimand in its history for breaching privacy policies. The next year in 2024, Luxembourgish authorities started an investigation into Lux for alleged corruption.

Career

He worked for

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, and in 1978 joined the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (OGB-L) as union secretary. Lux was the chairman of the

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branch of the

(LSAP) from 1986, and he became mayor of Bettembourg on 1 January 1988, which he would hold until his appointment to the government. The 1989 election saw Lux first enter the

, representing the

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, after which he stepped down from his position at the OGB-L. He was re-elected in 1994 and in 1999 (in fourth place among LSAP candidates in Sud). He was elected as Secretary-General of the LSAP in 2002, putting him in charge of the 2004 election. In that election, he placed fourth once again, while the LSAP dislodged the Democratic Party from the governing coalition. As a result, Lux was appointed Minister for the Environment and

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after the election, posts which he held until 23 July 2009, when they were abolished. In the 2009 election, Lux was returned to the Chamber, but only fifth amongst LSAP candidates. He did not contest the 2013 election and instead joined the

, the country's ''de facto'' upper legislative body, in 2014. In August 2023, Lux was accused of sharing confidential information of the Council of State with property tycoon Flavio Becca, a business partner of his who had a vested interest in the council's proposed regulations of MRIs and other diagnostics technology in private medical practices. A report in November later that year determined that Lux had disclosed the opinion of the council to "a person external to the institution" on 13 July, a few hours before a vote on the matter by council members. Lux was reprimanded, marking the first time the council had sanctioned one of its members. On 10 April 2024, police searched the premises of the Council of State as part of an investigation into allegations of Lux misusing company assets, laundering money, breaching professional secrecy, and receiving stolen goods.

References

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