Josée Lorsché
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Josée Lorsché | |
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_crop_Lorsché_2022.jpg) Lorsché in 2022 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the South | |
| In office 6 July 2011 – 24 October 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Jean Huss |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 September 1961 |
| Party | Déi Gréng |
Josée Lorsché (born 9 September 1961)[1] is a Luxembourgish politician and a member of the Greens. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2011 and president of the Green group in the Chamber since 2018.
Lorsché is a primary school teacher by profession.[1] She was an activist in the anti-nuclear movement during the 1980s, joining the Greens in 1984.[2] She was elected to the communal council of Bettembourg in 2005 and has been an alderman since 2011.[2]
Lorsché entered the Chamber of Deputies in 2011,[1] succeeding Jean Huss who resigned having been a deputy for 23 years.[3] She was re-elected in the 2013 and 2018 general elections.[1] Lorsché has been president of the Greens group in the Chamber since December 2018.[1][2]
Since 2018, Lorsché has been a member of the Benelux Parliament (as part of the SGD/SVD grouping)[4][5] and the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie.[1] She has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2019, first as a substitute and, from 2020, as a full representative.[6] She is part of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group.[6]
Lorsché was a lead candidate in Bettembourg for the 2023 local elections alongside Nicolas Hirsch.[7]
