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Andy Maar | |
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Born | December 19, 1983 |
Occupation(s) | Politician, student |
Years active | 2010-present |
Andy Maar (born December 19, 1983) is a Luxembourgish former politician. [1]
He used to be treasurer and, later, general secretary of the Pirate Party of Luxembourg (Piratepartei Lëtzebuerg) and the former national president of the Alternative Democratic Reform Party's (ADR) youth organization ADRenalin.[ citation needed ]
He studied telecommunication electronics in the Lycée technique d'Esch-sur-Alzette.[ citation needed ]
In 2010, Maar was elected as the national president of ADRenalin.[ citation needed ] In 2011, he was re-elected by the national congress of ADRenalin. [2] Additionally, he was a member both of the national board and of the executive committee of the ADR. As a representative of Adrenalin, a youth organisation of a party which is a member of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, he was himself the Luxembourgish delegate at the founding congress of the European Young Conservatives (EYC).
After the municipal elections of October 19, 2011, he and a large number of other members resigned from the ADRenalin national board due to political and ideological differences and, on October 11, he left the party. [3]
On October 29, 2011, at the national congress of the Pirate Party of Luxembourg, he was elected treasurer. [4]
On November 24, 2013, he was elected as the general secretary. [5]
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