Elisabeth Margue (born 7 April 1990 in Luxembourg City[1]) is a Luxembourgish politician and lawyer who is serving as the minister of justice since 17 November 2023.
[1][3] In 2017, she was elected (with 6 357 votes) to her first political mandate, member of the municipal council of Luxembourg City, where she was part of the coalition between the DP and CSV.
[1] Margue was also a member of the managing board of the CSV-Frëndeskrees association, why she was, in 2021, together with Frank Engel and other members of the board, charged with forgery, use of forgeries, fraud, abuse of trust and money laundering as part of the so-called “Frëndeskrees-Affäir”.Margue was, as all defendants in this case, acquitted.
[7][8] When Engel quit the CSV in March 2021, Margue and Stéphanie Weydert took over the party presidency on an interim basis for six weeks.
[10][11][12] On 13 September 2022, CSV parliamentarian Viviane Reding announced her retirement from the Chamber of Deputies and politics in general.
In her inaugural speech, she stated her belief that climate protection should not come at the expense of the economy and stressed the need for friction-free investments in real estate.