Maks Woroszylo is a 26-year-old member of the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) in Luxembourg, the president of the ADRenalin, the youth organization of ADR, and is currently running to become a Member of the Chamber of Deputies in the national elections scheduled to take place October 8th. He also works as a parliamentary advisor for the ADR. Outside of politics, he studies mechanical engineering at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).
Can you tell us a little bit about your personal background? How did you get involved in politics and why are you running for office?
Of course. My parents emigrated from Poland to Luxembourg in the 80s. So, I was born in Luxembourg, went to school there, and later decided to study in Vienna—a city that has especially influenced me culturally and architecturally. It is often said that how you look on the outside is how you feel and think on the inside, and the same is true for cities. Everyone likes traditional architecture, but in my opinion, the new post-modern progressive architecture is, in some cases, repulsive. Unfortunately, in Luxembourg, for example, you can find more and more of these kinds of buildings—those which really have no real soul.
Politics has always been a raison d’être in my life. At the age of 16, I started to question a lot of things critically. I asked myself the question: What is socialism? In theory, as a young person, you see a lot of good in this theory, but if you look at the actual circumstances of a socialist society, then you see only misery, sadness, and frustration.
My grandfather was shipped from Poland to Siberia at the age of 17 and my grandmother also had to flee from Germans during WW2. And despite all the misery, my family always stuck together. This fact has clearly proven to me that family is the core of every strong and prosperous society.
Meanwhile, procedures being taken by our left-wing government, which has been in power for ten years now, have weakened the family as a social structure in every way possible. They have replaced the word mother with a woke definition like, ‘a person who births.’ Or by replacing father and mother with the words ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’ in official documents.
All of this has affected me quite a bit. When I turned 18, many central and important political events took place in the Western world: Brexit, Trump, and then the conservative wave in Europe. In Luxembourgish society in general, I felt that I was the only one expressing my critical thoughts with a broader audience: I often felt that the mainstream and the status quo in Luxembourg propagated by the media was simply a resentful copy of the crazy trends coming out of America.
Early on I recognized the woke ideology, and have always been critical of it in all social circles. Politically, I also recognized the pre-programmed division of society in Luxembourg and used my courage to offer a voice for all those who feel oppressed, frustrated, and above all neglected.
The whole thing came with a price, of course: permanent insults on social media, and agitations on the street. Additionally, Luxembourg is very small, and everyone knows everyone: the privacy of conservative politicians here does not matter, of course, and is especially not respected by the mainstream media. Our left-liberal prime minister happens to also be the media minister.
As I said, my parents are from Poland, but now also have Luxembourg citizenship. I have always had a great affinity for the language, culture, and tradition. You don’t just come to a country and stay as you are. You come to Luxembourg to become a Luxembourger.
And this is exactly the view I carry in my heart with conviction. However, I have noticed a disintegration of the nation in Luxembourg since I grew up, and this has caused me a lot of worries. The Luxembourgish language is disappearing, and the culture and traditions are being reinterpreted by the left-liberal government. Also, we have witnessed a tremendous spike of criminality (In the last 20 years, crime has gone up by 300% in Luxembourg).
The laws are not applied categorically. Luxembourg has grown by 80% in the last 50 years, and as we know that the spike in criminality is connected to migration, this has become a very huge issue as criminality affects everybody.
Every year 15,000 new people arrive, and we simply cannot continue to carry this burden unhindered. Therefore, it is time for a change, otherwise we will run into the wall and the multicultural EU hemisphere will absorb Luxembourg.
At the end of 2020, I took the step to get politically involved, initially only in the youth section of the ADR (ADRenalin). I started to make critical videos in Luxembourgish about gender mainstreaming, reverse racism, and the dwindling purchasing power. In 2021, I was elected vice-president, and in 2022 president of ADRenalin
My goal was to learn internationally from other youth parties to become the most attractive youth party in Luxembourg. I achieved this by constantly researching, working for my faction president and Deputy Fernand Kartheiser, and attending ECR and other conservative meetings to find out what works and what does not.
Since December 2022, I have been working in the parliamentary group of our party, working for our deputies.
I am running, because I represent the counterculture in Luxembourg: So many friends and acquaintances of mine have thanked me for having the courage to voice the faults in the wokeness ideology. So I am running for all of those people who are frustrated with the misery and degenerating life quality in Luxembourg; I am running for those people who have been socially disintegrated during COVID-19. I am running for all of those who are victims of the ever-spiking criminality. I am running for the youth who cannot afford to stay in Luxembourg because of unrealistic prices. I am running for those who appreciate our culture, tradition, our language and respect our laws and sovereignty.
You’re running to be a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) in Luxembourg. For our readers, give us a brief description of the party, its core principles, and what it would like to achieve.
ADR is a socially conservative party that wants to strengthen the presence of the Luxembourgish language, which is disappearing more and more, and we also want to consolidate our culture and traditions. Our party was founded in 1987 as a single-issue party for pension justice. We have since been a conservative party that wants to reintroduce the traditional values that previously existed in our society, which are still good and true today, as a basic principle of society. A main theme that we prioritize is security and thus the fight against crime. In the last 20 years, the crime rate has increased by 300%. This is a declaration of bankruptcy of our government. We want to strengthen the presence of police on the field but also strengthen our crime law.
Furthermore, we are also the only party that has fought against the draconian lockdowns, masking laws, and mandatory vaccinations throughout the COVID crisis. We are also the only party to question the turbo-growth (Luxembourg has 630,000 inhabitants, and every year 15,000 people are added; we have grown by 80% in 50 years) and the heavy migratory flow we have in Luxembourg. Therefore, if we were to make it into government, we would first introduce a system of direct democracy in Luxembourg and immediately hold a referendum on the issue of a state with 1 million inhabitants.
Luxembourg is a country that doesn’t get much airtime in the international press. What should our readers from Europe, across the Western world, and elsewhere know about the most important issues facing the country and its people?
First, our country has been governed for 10 years by a coalition of the Democratic Party, the Socialists, and the Greens. I believe that with this governing coalition’s program disasters are preprogrammed.
We are simply growing far too fast and simply cannot adapt to this mass migration. Every problem that is affecting our country right now, be it the crime wave, the impossible real estate prices, the concreting over of natural areas, the disappearance of the Luxembourgish language, the avalanches of traffic jams as well as the astronomical prices—everything can be traced back to this uncontrollable migration flow. Therefore, we want to hold a referendum on the 1 million inhabitants’ state, in order to introduce a policy of selective migration, and thus maintain our quality of life.
Some might describe ADR as a national-conservative party. If that is a correct characterization of your party, what is it like being this kind of party in a multilingual and multicultural political landscape?
I would say that the other parties thrive on a mainstream orgy of opinion. Nobody can tell me the difference between the Democratic Party (DP) of Luxembourg and the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV). The Socialist Labor Party (LSAP) and the Green Party are almost the same. Therefore, since we want to lead a sensible policy that takes into account every Luxembourg resident, this causes a lot of criticism. We are also the only party that constantly fights for the preservation of the Luxembourgish language, because we think that only through this language integration in school can we succeed. But integration is a two-way street: everyone who comes to Luxembourg has a debt to share and should respect the culture, the traditions, the language, but of course also the laws. Where the other parties talk about ‘coexistence’, we talk about assimilation and integration. Only in this way can conflict be avoided—everything else brings chaos and problems.
How do you think ADR will fare in legislative elections scheduled for October 8th?
We had the best result in the municipal elections in June 2023 since the foundation of our party in 1987. Therefore, we are very optimistic that we will win these elections. That is, after the election next month, we will have more deputies.
Another very big problem is also the mobility in Luxembourg: Where other parties want to increase the CO2 tax, the car tax, and the fuel prices, we are the only party that is against a ban and road policy. We are the party of choice. The free market with the citizens should decide what is best and not a government that dictates guidelines from the top down. And for these reasons, we believe that people who are responsible will vote for us.
Final thoughts?
I must honestly say that our government—a coalition between DP, Greens, and Socialists—has managed to make every problem that previously existed even worse than it was. The people who are in daily traffic jams, have to deal with the rise of crime and have to pay astronomical prices, these people have had enough.
ADR is on the side of reason. Every vote for another party, no matter which one, will only bring us further down and endanger Luxembourg’s attractiveness. My party can’t offer anyone a job in the government, or an ‘advisory position’ on a high post. Therefore, only authentic people are members of our party, who want to represent an improvement and finally have a country of freedom, reason, and prosperity again.
