Josée Lorsché | |
Term Start1: | 6 July 2011 |
Term End1: | 24 October 2023 |
Birth Date: | 9 September 1961 |
Josée Lorsché (born 9 September 1961) is a Luxembourgish politician and a member of the Greens. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2011 and president of the Green group in the Chamber since 2018.
Lorsché is a primary school teacher by profession. She was an activist in the anti-nuclear movement during the 1980s, joining the Greens in 1984. She was elected to the communal council of Bettembourg in 2005 and has been an alderman since 2011.
Lorsché entered the Chamber of Deputies in 2011,[1] succeeding Jean Huss who resigned having been a deputy for 23 years.[2] She was re-elected in the 2013 and 2018 general elections. Lorsché has been president of the Greens group in the Chamber since December 2018.
Since 2018, Lorsché has been a member of the Benelux Parliament (as part of the SGD/SVD grouping)[3] [4] and the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie. She has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2019, first as a substitute and, from 2020, as a full representative.[5] She is part of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group.[5]
Lorsché was a lead candidate in Bettembourg for the 2023 local elections alongside Nicolas Hirsch.[6]
Lorsché is married and has two daughters.[7] She lives in Noertzange in the commune of Bettembourg.