There are arguments in the Luxembourg parties – and that’s a good thing

« There is no i in team » is a popular management phrase. This is intended to express that the individual has to take back for the well -being of the big and whole. He was in the « Team CSV, » said Finance Minister Gilles Roth on the radio. The fact that the question arose which inner party camp feels associated with that in the CSV the trenches become deeper between the traditional Christian social wing of the party and the economic liberal flow dominating in the government.

Because there is still an S in CSV. The parliamentary group leader Marc Spautz was the only representative of the party at the OGBL congress at the weekend. No government member was invited. The representative of the social wing of the party showed understanding that the unions come together in the face of some advances of the government. It is about « your survival, but also about the survival of the social dialogue, » he said. He also referred to the preliminary press of the Minister of Labor Georges Mischo (CSV), who had suggested that collective contracts could be negotiated without unions in the future.

The CSV is by no means the only party in which it is rumbling. David Wagner from Déi Lénk has to go from party colleagues Allegations Listen that he is a warmonger because he is for military support for Ukraine. On Facebook there was talk of « disgusting left -wing wreath of war ». Also on the Party congress By Déi Gréng On the weekend last weekend, a member clearly pressed his discomfort on the course of the party leadership in the upgrade question. Pacifism has long been part of the identity of the parties of the left spectrum, which now have to face brutal real -political reality. The adjustment process cannot be done without friction.

In view of the growing political pressure on all sides, it is often a reflex of the party leaderships to demonstrate unity. You need a party politics « from a single source, » said Red. Can be discussed internally; A united front should be shown externally. The CSV needs a « captain », which among other things would have to « work » the elected representatives.

However, this corresponds to a strange understanding of democracy and is simply wrong in times of fundamental reorientation. MPs in particular should not only be obliged to the party. The search for consensus within parties often takes place in small, closed groups. In basic issues such as the orientation of social policy or defense, however, there must be no back room policy. The party leaderships must, including publicly presented, object.

Dispute is often understood as a weakness. But it should be a strength. In parts of the population, doubts about democracy grow and sinks confidence in elected representatives. To counteract this, openness and transparency are crucial. This requires arguments – also in the parties.