The CSV in Pétange is already in battle mode for the next municipal elections. The local section has just unveiled the composition of its candidate list, which will be led by  together with André Martins Dias.

Halsdorf is currently an alderman and member of parliament and was mayor of Petange between 2000 and 2004. Following the 2004 parliamentary elections, he was appointed minister of the interior and minister of defence in the first Juncker-Asselborn government. He retained those portfolios again following the 2009 elections, up until the fall of the Juncker government in 2013.

The CSV list in Pétange consists of nine women and 10 men. The commune, the fifth most populous in the grand duchy, will have 19 councillors in 2023 up from 17 at the 2017 elections (local elections take place every six years, as opposed to every five years for the national parliament elections).

If Jean-Marie Halsdorf embodies the experience, André Martins Dias symbolises the renewal of the party, says the section's press release. It should be noted that André Martins Dias was treasurer of the CSV Frëndeskreess association, which was suspected of having provided a fictitious job to the former president of the party, , which led to him being referred to the court with six other people. He was

Pierre Mellina, the current CSV mayor of the commune had already announced that he no longer wished to stand for the position, and Halsdorf was immediately the favourite to replace him. In Pétange, the CSV currently dominates local politics with nine of the 16 elected members of the local council, and has a majority with the LSAP, which has four elected members.

This article was first published in . It has been translated and edited by Delano.