Confusion about Pim Knaff: Splitting yes, resignation no

« DP-Schöffe Pim Knaff steps back from his post, Fresch should be reorganized, » heads Tageblatt.lu On Thursday evening and indicated a change in the Schöffenrat of Esch/Alzette at the end of the year. A partial Dementi of the person concerned immediately follows on LW demand.

« Yes, it is true that Fresch will be reorganized. That was all of our wish because politics was represented too strongly there, » says Pim Knaff on Thursday evening in a phone call with the « Luxembourg word ». According to Knaff, it has long been known that he would exchange his lay judge in the local council during the mandate period with his party colleague Daliah Scholl. However, the THATH -BLACK THE THE THATIONSTATION that he would resign at the end of the year was « freely invented ». Knaff continues: « Daliah and I decide when the time is ripe, not the Tageblatt, » Knaff told the Luxembourg word. PIM Knaff reminds that the coalition agreement expressly provides for this possibility.

Like that « Luxemburger Word » reported in June 2023some personnel adjustments are actually planned in the course of the term of office. So it was said at that time that Déi Gréng would divide her lay judge and Mandy Ragni will take over the office of Meris Sehovic in the course of the mandate period. At the time, however, it was also said that Pim Knaff would remain lay judges for six years, i.e. for the entire mandate period.

At least since the affair about the condemnation of Pim Knaff because of severe tax fraud, the Disputes about the Frech association as well as the Find out of direction22 from the Bâtiment4 Nevertheless, rumors about a splitting at the DP were persistent. In the meantime, there were actually personnel changes in the Escher Schöffenrat after Mayor Georges Mischo (CSV) switched to the government and his Office to his party colleague Christian Weis handed over. Bruno Cavaleiro (all CSV) moved to the lay judge.

« It is quite common in this country that coalition contracts provide for the possibility of a party internal splitting, » said Mayor Christian Weis in an interview with the LW on Thursday evening. He points out that the Escher coalition agreement even goes one step further and provides that parties could exchange departments with each other during the legislative period. However, it is up to the respective party, in Pim Knaff’s case of the DP, as she did in the Schöffenrat. « I don’t comment. » He is not aware that a possibly suggested change at the DP could already take place at the end of 2025 at the end of 2025.