The Luxembourg Pirate Party drew up their first report after a Chamber meeting on Saturday. Their assessment provided a testament to their diligence: with 90 parliamentary questions since October 2018 under his belt, Sven Clément had posed more than anyone else. Colleague Marc Goergen too, was in the top 5 with 69 questions.
Parliamentary work is about providing constructive and productive opposition, they maintain. However on a general, national scale they hope for more citizen engagement, for example when it comes to things like constitutional reform.
While the Pirates do not yet have a clear answer as to how exactly this can be done, Clement suggests that suffrage, constituencies and seat distribution were definitive topics of discussion. The accumulation of mandates was another topic that was regularly up for debate without inducing any real change.
Finally, the deputies officially introduced two new projects: through the website www.fro.lu, every citizen is able to submit their parliamentary question to the government, a question the Pirates will then take to the Chamber.
This autumn then ushers in the second initiative, another digital platform: www.dengstëmm.lu which offers the public the opportunity to vote on law projects.
