Aly Jaerling

Alphonse 'Aly' Jaerling (born 30 January 1948 in Esch-sur-Alzette) is a Luxembourgian politician that currently sits as an independent, having previously been a representative of the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR).fr icon cite web|url=http://www.chd.lu/fr/organisation/membres/membres.jsp?ID=99 |title=Aly Jaerling |accessdate=2007-09-01 |date= |publisher=Chamber of Deputies ] Jaerling has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since the 1999 election. He is also a member of Esch-sur-Alzette's communal council (1993 – 1999, 2000 – ).

Jaerling left the ADR on 1 May 2006, protesting at the shift in the party's emphasis away from pension reform, which had originally been the ADR's "raison d'être", and decrying the 'nationalism' espoused by the party. [fr icon cite web|url=http://www.paperjam.lu/c/articles/15245.html |title=ADR: Jaerling prend la tangente |accessdate=2007-09-01 |date=2006-04-21 |publisher=PaperJam.lu ] The party had recently renamed itself from 'Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice', a name that it had borne since 1992, as part of its gradual metamorphosis from a single-issue party to one of the established parties. However, Jaerling's departure dealt the party a major blow, reducing the party's deputation in the Chamber of Deputies to four seats, ending its qualification as a party caucus (it qualifies now only as a 'group'), and calling into question the party's future. [fr icon cite web|url=http://www.investigateur.info/zines/textes/315_3.html |title=Le hara-kiri d’Aly Jaerling |accessdate=2007-09-01 |year=2006 |publisher=L'investigateur ]

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