Dudelange is a political peculiarity: for almost 80 years, the LSAP has held an absolute majority on the municipal council. An interview with Dan Biancalana, mayor, LSAP MP and co-president of his party.
As we stroll through Dudelange, it rarely takes more than a few steps before Dan Biancalana is greeted. A brief handshake here, a few words there – the mayor knows his town, and the town knows him.
Lëtzebuerger Journal: The LSAP will soon be able to look back on 80 years of absolute majority on the Dudelange municipal council. How do you do that? Are the socialists in Dudelange really that brilliant, or is the opposition here simply that bad?
Dan Biancalana: Our local section has always been able, through its projects, to make it clear where it wants the city of Dudelange to go. Over all these years, efforts have also consistently been made to renew ourselves …
… which other parties would probably claim about themselves as well, and which can hardly explain why one party has now been at the helm for almost eight decades …
What can we say … It's certainly not a matter of course. We have to constantly work on ourselves and convince others. Local politics is always teamwork, it doesn't work without it. Ultimately, however, it is the voters who decide.
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