Taina Bofferding

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Taina Bofferding (born November 22, 1982 in Esch an der Alzette ) is a Luxembourg politician from the Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP) . Since December 2018 she has been Minister of the Interior and Minister for Equality between Women and Men in the Bettel II government ; before that, she had been a member of the country's parliament since 2013 .

Career

Taina Bofferding first attended the Lycée Hubert-Clément in her native Esch . Three years before graduating from high school, she changed schools and graduated as an educator. This was followed by a degree in social sciences at the University of Trier, which she graduated in 2011.

From 2011 to 2015, Bofferding worked as a union secretary at the Independent Trade Union Confederation (OGBL) . She quit her job in order to be able to devote herself full-time to her political activities.

In 2010 she was a founding member of the Alliance of Humanists, Atheists and Agnostics (AHA). After nine years as its vice-president, she gave up her position after being appointed to the government.

politics

Bofferding has been a member of the LSAP since 2004. In 2011 she was elected to the local council in Esch, and resigned her mandate after her appointment as minister. She is seen as ambitious, conscientious and as a person of balance between the left wing and the wing of the LSAP that tends towards the political center.

In the 2013 chamber election , Bofferding ran for a seat in the state's parliament in the southern constituency. First failed to qualify, but benefited first Nachrückerin that with Jean Asselborn , Dan Kersh and Lydia Mutsch the placed in three of her government changed and had therefore resign their parliamentary mandate. She was a member of several committees , and she was deputy chairman of the Committee on Families and Integration . After the 2018 chamber election , Bofferding was appointed to the cabinet . Since December 5, 2018, she has been the minister responsible for the areas of home affairs and equality .

Influenced by her work at the trade union federation OGBL , she was confronted with the realities of social inequality and since then has been campaigning in her political activities above all for issues of equal opportunities, the redistribution of wealth and the strengthening of the welfare state.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Official Gazette of the Luxembourg Government of June 8, 2010, PDF file, 504kB, accessed on September 19, 2019 (French)
  2. ↑ Expand civil ceremonies, introduce welcome party! AHA press release of January 20, 2019, accessed on September 19, 2019
  3. ↑ Luc Ewen: Jeff Dax replaces Taina Bofferding. Luxemburger Wort , December 5, 2018, accessed on September 19, 2019
  4. ↑ Luc Laboulle: It is gone: The Escher LSAP is losing its hope. Tageblatt , December 7, 2018, accessed on September 19, 2019
  5. ^ Election results in the southern district of the 2013 chamber election on the website of the Luxembourg government, accessed on September 17, 2019. (French)
  6. ↑ Taina Bofferding , on the website of the Luxembourg Parliament, as of August 6, 2018, in the Internet Archive (French)
  7. ↑ Alex Bodry et Ben Fayot: 120 Jor Sozialistesch Deputéiert at the Lëtzebuerger Chamber . Ed .: Groupe parlementaire socialiste. Luxembourg 2016, ISBN 978-2-919908-11-0 , pp. 40-41 .
personal data
SURNAME Bofferding, Taina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg politician, member of parliament and minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Esch on the Alzette