Latvia: the center-right coalition won the legislative The outgoing center-right coalition Saturday won the parliamentary elections in Latvia, the opposition party of Russian-speaking losing his first team place in parliament, according to exit polls. The vote, which took place in the shadow of the crisis in Ukraine and the aggressive policy of Russia, brought the ruling coalition 63 seats in a room that into account percent, according to a survey by the institute SKDS. According to these projections, the main coalition force, Unity, gets 25 seats, while the Party of Russian speakers, Harmony (opposition, left), 23 in total. It is a vote of confidence in the Unity Party and the coalition. (...) This means that people want us to continue our work, welcomed the President of the outgoing parliament Solvita Aboltina on TV service. The other two members of the coalition, the National Alliance, and the Greens and Farmers, are credited with 19 seats each. If unit is clearly the main winner of the election, it was not immediately clear if President Andris Berzins would ask the outgoing Prime Minister Laimdota STRAUJUMA, to form the new government. Many analysts felt it might be preferable former European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs. The annexation of Crimea by Russia and eastern Ukraine intervention in this country have strongly influenced the electoral climate in Latvia, a small Baltic country of two million people, a member of NATO and the EU. The leader of the Harmony Party, backed by the large Russian-speaking minority, which accounts for some 25% of the population, the popular mayor of Riga Nils Ushakovs, said he was an admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Harmony is linked to the party of Putin by a cooperation agreement.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:11:00 +0000
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