While in Diekirch, he sat on the communal council, becoming mayor.

Other exits were planned but their construction is blocked by communal councils.

The communal council decided to create the museum in 1998.

He won a place on Luxembourg City's communal council in 1973.

The principal decision making body of a communal council is the citizens' assembly.

The city's administration is headed by the mayor, who is the leader of the largest party on the communal council.

He was elected to the communal council of Walferdange in the 1987 election, sitting until the present day.

In 2005 the communal council was dissolved due to camorra connections of its members.

He made his first political step in 1979, being elected to the city's communal council.

He was also a member of the communal and provincial councils between 1844 and 1845.