Claude Wiseler
Honorific prefixThe Honourable
OfficePresident of the Chamber of Deputies
MonarchHenri
Guillaume V
Term start21 November 2023
Vice presidentFernand Etgen (2023-2025)
Mars Di Bartolomeo
Michel Wolter
André Bauler
PredecessorFernand Etgen
Office 2Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term start 25 December 2013
Constituency 2Centre
Term start 313 July 1999
Term end 330 July 2004
Constituency 3Centre
Office 4President of the Christian Social People's Party
Term start 424 April 2021
Term end 427 November 2023
Predecessor 4Frank Engel
Successor 4Elisabeth Margue
Office 5Minister of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure
Term start 523 July 2009
Term end 54 December 2013
Prime minister 5Jean-Claude Juncker
Predecessor 5Fernand Boden (Rural development)
Successor 5François Bausch
Office 6Minister of Civil Service, Administrative Reform and Public Works
Term start 631 July 2004
Term end 623 July 2009
Prime minister 6Jean-Claude Juncker
Predecessor 6Lydie Polfer (Public service and Administrative reform)
Erna Hennicot-Schoepges (Public works)
Successor 6François Biltgen
Birth date30 January 1960 (age 66)
Birth placeLuxembourg City, Luxembourg
ProfessionProfessor · Politician
SpouseIsabel Wiseler-Santos Lima
PartyChristian Social People's Party
Alma materAthénée de Luxembourg
Sorbonne Nouvelle University

Claude Wiseler (born 30 January 1960) is a Luxembourgish politician, serving as president of the Chamber of Deputies since 2023. A member of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), of which he was President from 2021 to 2023,[1][2] he previously served as a minister in the Juncker–Asselborn I and II governments from 2004 to 2013, and was the CSV's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2018 general election.

He attended the Athénée de Luxembourg, before studying literature in Paris. He returned to the Athénée to teach language in 1983, which he continued to do until 1988. From 1987 to 1999, he served as an adviser to the government on educational issues.[1] He became General Secretary of the Christian Social People's Party in 1995.[3]

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1999 election, finishing sixth amongst CSV candidates in the Centre constituency, where six CSV deputies were elected.[4] In the communal elections of October 1999, Wiseler was elected to Luxembourg City's communal council in third-place amongst CSV candidates (six were elected);[5] he was appointed as an échevin in the DP-CSV administration, and served in this position from 1 January 2000 until 30 July 2004.[1]

He was comfortably re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2004 election, placing second amongst CSV candidates in a CSV landslide victory,[6] and appointed to the new cabinet to hold the positions of Minister for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform and Minister for Public Works. After the 2009 election, Wiseler was reappointed to the government in the enlarged role of Minister for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, which included his former portfolio of Public Works.

Wiseler was elected President of the CSV in 2021, receiving 400 votes from 475 members of the party's national congress.[2]

He is married to fellow CSV politician and Member of the European Parliament Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Claude Wiseler" (in French). Chamber of Deputies. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  2. ^ "Claude Wiseler elected party president with overwhelming majority". RTL today. 2021-04-24. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Perséinlechkeeten aus der CSV" (in lb). Christian Social People's Party. Archived from the original on 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
  4. ^ "1999: Circonscription Centre" (in French). Service Information et Presse. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-10.
  5. ^ "Résultants 1999" (in French). Ville de Luxembourg. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
  6. ^ "2004: Circonscription Centre" (in French). Service Information et Presse. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-10.

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