The Taxpayer (Luxembourg)

The Taxpayer (Luxembourgish: De Steierzueler, French: Le Contribuable, German: Der Steuerzahler)^[1] was a political party in Luxembourg. It contested the 1999 election to the Chamber of Deputies, but disbanded afterwards.

The Taxpayer was a middle-class party that campaigned for lower government expenditure,^[2] and more transparency in government budgetry spending. In 1999, it contested only the Centre constituency, in which it came eighth and last, with only 1.3% of the vote. This amounted to 0.4% nationwide.^[3]

A disproportionate number of these votes were cast for the leader Jhemp Bertrand,^[3] a long-time councillor in Schuttrange and tax resister who had run under a number of other party names before.^[4]

Footnotes

1. "Little Luxembourg makes a big impact". European Voice. 3 June 1999.
2. Day, Alan John (2002). Political Parties of the World. John Harper. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-9536278-7-5.
3. "Circonscription Centre" (in French). Service Information et Presse. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
4. Hilgert, Romain (6 February 2004). "The Birth of a Party". Lëtzebuerger Land (in Luxembourgish).