A new website, Smartvote, providing useful information on citizens' political preferences in Luxembourg, is launched.  

Based on an online questionnaire on political values, desirable public policies - especially in the economic, ethical and social domains - external policies and, in general, on the political life in Luxembourg, the political profiles of the candidates are gathered and stored in a database.

On this website, available in four languages, the Internet users can answer the same questions, establishing their political proximity to political candidates and / or parties. This website, hence, enables the citizens to better identify their political preferences.

In addition, this website allows the graphical representation of the positions of the voters, the candidates and the parties capturing the wide dimension of the electoral competition:

• The "smartspider" comprises seven axes (Universalism, Economic Liberalism, Order and Safety, Traditionalism, Social State, Environmental Protection and Democratic Participation); the smartspider, at a glance, summarises policy areas' positions.
• The "smartmap" shows the political positions as on a map of a bi-dimensional coordinate system. The "North-South" axis 'is replaced by a (cultural) Liberalism - (social) Conservatism axis and the "East-West" axis is replaced by the traditional socio-economic left-right axis.

This new website is a key element in the "Polux" project research, initiated by the Research Program on European Governance, University of Luxembourg and is coordinated by Philippe Poirier. The research project "Polux" is funded by the National Fund for Research.

Further information:

• Official press release -  Website of the University of Luxembourg (in French)
• Official website of Smartvote