Luxembourg election delivers likely return to centre-right

FILE PHOTO: Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel attends the informal meeting of European heads of state or government, in Granada, Spain October 6, 2023. REUTERS/Juan Medina/File Photo

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Luxembourg's legislative election results on Sunday left the liberal-led coalition without a majority, making it likely the country's long-dominant centre-right party will gain influence.

Opinion polls indicated that the centre-right Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) - which was led for 19 years by EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker - was on course to be the largest party and would end Xavier Bettel’s 10 years as prime minister of a three-party coalition and only the second non-CSV leader for Luxembourg since World War Two.