Roy Reding

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Roy Reding, October 2016

Roy Reding (born July 17, 1965 in Luxembourg City ) is a Luxembourg politician , member of parliament and lawyer .

Life

Reding spent his childhood in Bech , a village near Echternach and lived in Fischbach near Mersch and in Folschette near Rambrouch in Luxembourg . Reding has four children and now lives with his wife Karine Reuter, former first judge and now a notary, in Pétange and in Luxembourg City. Roy Reding spent his school days at the Echternach high school, where he shared a class with the former CSV culture minister and justice minister Octavie Modert , the former DP general secretary Georges Gudenburg and the former ADR parliamentary group secretary Alain Frast . After graduating from school, he studied in Aix-en-Provence at the University of Provence Aix-Marseille III . Then obtained the academic degree of Master of the rights at the University of Robert Schumann in Strasbourg . After completing his studies, Roy Reding began his professional career on August 1, 1989 as a lawyer at the Luxembourg bank BGL BNP Paribas . In May 1990 he was officially admitted to the bar and in early 1993 opened his own law firm , Reding and Felten in Luxembourg City . After a splitting in 2003, the Reding law firm is now in the city center.

Local politics

Reding was already politically active at the age of 15. At first he was a member of the LSAP and its youth organization JSL. In the 1999 municipal elections in Luxembourg, Reding stood for the first time as a single candidate in the Fischbach municipality and was able to move into the local council as the second elected. Since October 8, 2017, Reding is the only representative of ADR to be a member of the City Council of Luxembourg City .

National politics

Roy Reding (left) at an ADR press conference.

The trigger for Reding's entry into national politics was the Treaty on a Constitution for Europe , which he politically rejected. Reding then became politically active at the ADR , whose views he shared and for which he ran as a potential candidate for the seat in the State Council , which has become vacant since 2005 . After the Chambre des Députés rejected the seat of Michèle Boz-Retter, another ADR candidate, despite the fact that the party had had 10% of the vote in four elections, Reding was determined to get into national politics.

At the 2006 ADR National Congress, Reding was elected as Secretary General.

In the parliamentary elections on June 7, 2009 , Reding ran for the national and European elections . With 5299 votes, he was second on the list in the center behind Jacques-Yves Henckes and narrowly missed the entry into parliament.

In the new elections in October 2013, Reding was elected to parliament. On November 13, 2013, Reding was sworn in as a member of the Luxembourg Parliament. He is a member of the parliamentary commissions for justice, economy, agriculture and wine industry, consumer protection, as well as for university politics, research, media and communication. He is also a representative of the Luxembourg Parliament in the BENELUX Parlement.

Since June 8, 2010, together with the MP Fernand Kartheiser, he has also represented party interests in relations with the European political party AECR , of which he became treasurer in 2012.

Reding was Secretary General of ADR from 2006 to 2012, then Vice President from 2012 to 2017.

In the October 2018 elections, Reding was re-elected to parliament, with a vote increase of 12.4%.

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Reding moderated the program “Vu Fall zu Fall” on the Luxembourg channel “.dok”. There, the lawyer and politician, together with his wife, answers legal questions and discusses current political issues. For years, Reding also moderated the “City Talk” program with his guests on developments in and around Luxembourg City .

Controversy

In April 2013, three public prosecutors conducted legal investigations into the " Hooters scandal" and the like. a. against Reding on suspicion of trading in illegal licenses.

On March 12, 2015, Reding was fined € 50,000 by the Breeding Police Court for illegally renovating a private property.

On March 8, 2018, the ADR's newly opened citizens' office in Luxembourg City caused a stir. According to the council of lay judges, Reding, as its owner, is violating municipal legislation and building regulations with the way the building works. On April 3, RTL announced the official closure of the party office and its activity.

After the owner of the property in which the party office was located, submitted an application for a change of use with simultaneous renovation and conversion measures, this was rejected by the responsible building authority (Service d'Urbanisme), later the application was approved provided that the party office was closed and its activities in the locality will be discontinued.

In October 2013, Reding caused a shitstorm on social networks and the media after he described the celebrations for Luxembourg's national day and the Catholic Te Deum with the words "Vive den TeGayum" after Prime Minister Xavier Bettel announced that the national holiday would be extra-church, civil Organize ceremony. This was understood as an attack on Luxembourg's prime minister and his homosexuality.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ paperjam.lu
  2. ↑ visilux.chd.lu
  3. ↑ aecr.eu ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ RTL NewMedia: Walen 2018 . ( rtl.lu [accessed October 16, 2018]).
  5. ↑ facebook.com
  6. ↑ http://www.bild.de/geld/wirtschaft/hooters/ Betrugsverdacht-bei-hooters- 29845230.bild.html
  7. ↑ http://www.lessentiel.lu/de/wirtschaft/story/Roy-Reding-in-Hooters-Skandal-verwickelt--17813519
  8. ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/vor-dem-berufungsgericht-roy-redings-ehre-auf-dem-spiel-56e6f8bb1bea9dff8fa7476a
  9. ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/wegen-umbauarbeiten-adr-abteilunger-roy-reding-muss-50-000-euro-strafe-zahlen-550153330c88b46a8ce553c2
  10. ↑ http://www.lessentiel.lu/de/news/luxemburg/story/13067748
  11. ↑ http://www.tageblatt.lu/nachrichten/roy-reding-muss-50000-strafe-zahlen-25120160/
  12. ↑ http://www.rtl.lu/letzebuerg/1146569.html
  13. ↑ https://www.wort.lu/de/lokales/adr-fanshop-in-der-rue-de-la-boucherie-5aa1627bc1097cee25b83d74
  14. ↑ http://www.rtl.lu/letzebuerg/1159692.html
  15. ↑ https://www.rtl.lu/news/national/archiv/489766.html
personal data
SURNAME Reding, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg lawyer and politician (ADR), member of the Chambre
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg city