Marcel Sauber

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Marcel Sauber (born 3 May 1939 in Echternach)[1] is a Luxembourgian politician. He is a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Centre constituency for the Christian Social People's Party (CSV). He had been President of the Council of State and .

Sauber was appointed a member of the Council of State on 28 June 1985, replacing .[2] He was elected to the communal council of Walferdange in the , sitting until the present day. In that time, he was from 6 February 1995 until 31 December 1999.[1] Sauber ran for the Chamber of Deputies for Centre in the 1999 election, finishing twelfth of the CSV candidates, whilst six were elected.[3]

Having not been elected to the Chamber, Sauber was appointed Vice-President on 6 December 1999, and President of the Council of State on 15 January 2001, succeeding Raymond Kirsch. He served in this capacity until 11 March 2003,[2] when he resigned to take up the vacancy in the Chamber of Deputies left by the death of Willy Bourg in February.[4] He ran for re-election in 2004, finishing twelfth once more.[5] However, on the back of a CSV landslide, Sauber was promoted to take up one of the places vacated by government ministers, and has sat in the Chamber since then.

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Marcel Sauber" (in French). Chamber of Deputies. Archived from the original on 2004-12-25. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Membres depuis 1857" (in French). Council of State. Archived from the original on 2009-11-03. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  3. ^ "Circonscription Centre" (in French). Service Information et Presse. Archived from the original on July 9, 2006. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  4. ^ "Marcel Sauber wird Deputierter" (in German). Christian Social People's Party. 6 March 2003. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  5. ^ "Circonscription Centre" (in French). Service Information et Presse. Archived from the original on September 3, 2005. Retrieved 2009-04-05.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Raymond Kirsch
President of the Council of State
2001–2003
Succeeded by
Pierre Mores


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