"Politics is an absolute team sport"

Maxime Miltgen is punctual to the minute, but we only notice this because, for once, we are over-punctual, i.e. we arrive ten minutes early at the agreed meeting point at the (unfortunately still closed) mini golf course in the Pétrusse valley. It has just rained heavily. When the local councillor, LSAP vice-president and chairwoman of the Femmes Socialistes arrives, the sun comes out. Just as we finish our conversation and make our way to the upper town, it finally rains dogs and cats …

Lëtzebuerger Journal: How did you end up at the LSAP? From your family background, your father, Daniel Miltgen, was in the CSV, one would have expected you to be in the CSV. What did your father do wrong?

Maxime Miltgen: We talked a lot about politics at home. Social justice was an almost daily topic for us, which naturally influences you. However, the CSV was never an option for me, if only because my sister and I were not baptised. In the third year of school, we were allowed to decide for ourselves whether we wanted to make up for our baptism and take communion. If we had done this, however, we would have had to donate all our gifts.

Oh ..

I ended up at LSAP more by chance after friends who were involved in the LSAP election campaign in 2018 asked me if I wanted to join. I quickly got to know a lot of people and joined the party within a few weeks.