Affordable housing key issue in Luxembourg's election as voters head to polls

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The Grand Duchy is considered one of the wealthiest places to live in the EU, but many of those who work there feel out-priced by rising housing costs

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00:00 Luxembourg goes to the polls on Sunday in an election that could end the ten-year stint

00:06 of Xavier Bertel as Prime Minister.

00:09 His Democrat Party's ruling coalition with the Socialists and Greens is trailing in surveys

00:14 to the centre-right Christian Social People's Party, which is on course to top the poll.

00:20 The main candidates made a last bid for support in a televised debate on Thursday.

00:25 No party seems likely to win an outright majority and a period of intense negotiations is likely

00:31 to follow the vote.

00:32 In the previous two elections, the centre-right failed to form a coalition.

00:41 But this time they're hoping to capitalise on rising anger over the country's dire housing

00:45 crisis, which has led to rare street protests.

00:51 Both the centre-right and centre-left groups have vowed to take emergency action to provide

00:56 more affordable homes.

00:59 Sunday's vote may reveal which has been more convincing.

01:02 [Whoosh]

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