Luxembourg Prime Minister resigns
On July 11, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker announced his resignation due to the wiretapping scandal of the country's secret service.
The decision came after the Socialist Party, a member of the ruling coalition, called for the dissolution of parliament and early elections.
Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker (Photo: AFP)
Speaking before the National Assembly, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker declared that he had no other choice because the majority of people wanted early elections. Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker also announced the convening of a cabinet meeting and planned to meet with Grand Duke Henri to propose a plan to hold elections on October 20, that is, 7 months earlier than the deadline.
Although only 58 years old, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker has been in power for the past 18 years. He is the longest-serving leader in Europe. He also just ended his 8-year term as chairman of the group of finance ministers of countries using the euro. In a rare political scandal in Luxembourg, the Parliament investigated a report confirming that the Secret Service, directly controlled by the prime minister, committed a series of violations from 2003 to 2009, including illegal phone tapping, corruption...
According to reports, Luxembourg's secret service kept records of 13,000 individuals and businesses, illegally wiretapped businessmen, and carried out an intelligence operation that helped a Russian billionaire pay $10 million to a Spanish spy...
The report also said that Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, as supervisor of the Secret Service, failed to effectively manage the agency and also failed to inform Parliament about Secret Service violations.
Meanwhile, the opposition believes that Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker is too busy solving the crisis of the Eurozone and has neglected running the country./.
According to VOV - DT
