Elisabeth Margue | |
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Minister of Justice | |
Assumed office 17 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Luc Frieden |
Preceded by | Sam Tanson |
Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Media and Connectivity | |
Assumed office 17 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Luc Frieden |
Preceded by | Xavier Bettel |
Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament | |
Assumed office 17 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Luc Frieden |
Preceded by | Marc Hansen |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 24 October 2023 –17 November 2023 | |
Constituency | Centre |
In office 11 October 2022 –24 October 2023 | |
Constituency | Centre |
President of the Christian Social People's Party | |
In office 26 March 2022 –16 March 2024 | |
Preceded by | Frank Engel |
Succeeded by | Luc Frieden |
Personal details | |
Born | Luxembourg City,Luxembourg | 7 April 1990
Political party | Christian Social People's Party (2007–present) |
Alma mater | Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University London School of Economics |
Elisabeth Margue (born 7 April 1990 in Luxembourg City [1] ) is a Luxembourgish politician and lawyer who is serving as the minister of justice since 17 November 2023.
After finishing her high-school studies at Lycée de Garçons de Luxembourg,Elisabeth Margue studied private law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and holds a second Master's degree in industrial property from the same university,which she got in 2014. In 2015,she got a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics,specializing in corporate and commercial law. [1] [2]
After her studies,Margue joined the business law firm Arendt &Medernach,where she worked as a litigator and dealt mainly with liability cases,such as medical liability,leases and road accidents. [3] Since 2016,she was Avocat àla Cour and member of the Barreau (Bar association). [1]
Margue joined the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) in 2007. In 2013,she stood as candidate in the general election in the Centre constituency and got 16 805 votes. [4] She was asked to be a candidate by Luc Frieden,whom she knew because they were both living in the town of Contern and she was babysitting his children. She was considered as Frieden's disciple since her entry into the party and a part of the wing of the party closer to economic liberalism. [3]
In February 2016,Margue became president of the party's youth wing CSJ,a position she held until December 2018. [1] [3]
In 2017,she was elected (with 6 357 votes) to her first political mandate,member of the municipal council of Luxembourg City,where she was part of the coalition between the DP and CSV. A year later,she stood again as candidate in the general election. She wasn't elected in the Chamber of Deputies,but was only a few votes short. Her party managed to get seven seats (out of 21) in the Centre constituency,with the seventh seat going to Paul Galles,who got 16 942 votes,while Margue got 16 860. [5] [6]
In January 2019,she became vice-president of her party. [1] Margue was also a member of the managing board of the CSV-Frëndeskrees association,why she was,in 2021,together with Frank Engel and other members of the board,charged with forgery,use of forgeries,fraud,abuse of trust and money laundering as part of the so-called “Frëndeskrees-Affäir”.Margue was,as all defendants in this case,acquitted. [7] [8] When Engel quit the CSV in March 2021,Margue and Stéphanie Weydert took over the party presidency on an interim basis for six weeks. In March 2022,Margue became president of her party,a position she shared with Claude Wiseler. [9] [6] She held this position until 16 March 2023,when Luc Frieden was elected president of the CSV. [10] [11] [12]
On 13 September 2022,CSV parliamentarian Viviane Reding announced her retirement from the Chamber of Deputies and politics in general. [13] As Reding was also part of the Centre constituency,Margue was next in line to become a parliamentarian. She was sworn in on 11 October 2022,just a year before the next general elections were scheduled. In her inaugural speech,she stated her belief that climate protection should not come at the expense of the economy and stressed the need for friction-free investments in real estate. [3]
During the electoral campaign for the general election of 2023,Margue was co-leading candidate in her constituency,together with national leading candidate Luc Frieden. [14] With 23 164 votes,she was the second most voted candidate of the CSV in the Centre was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. On 24 October 2023,she was sworn in as Member of Parliament,a position she held until 17 November 2023,when she became Minister of Justice. [15]
On 17 November 2023,Margue was sworn in as Minister of Justice,Minister delegated to the Prime Minister,responsible for Media and Communications,Minister delegated to the Prime Minister,responsible for Relations with Parliament. [16] [17] [18] She is part of the Frieden-Bettel Government,a coalition between her CSV and the Democratic Party (DP). [19]
Margue has a child,which was born only four weeks before she became a member of the Chamber of Deputies. [3]
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