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Title: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: 🦀🎂🦀🎂 on October 02, 2018, 11:46:02 AM Happening this Saturday. Big question will be the one that we always ask around Latvian elections: will Russia-aligned Harmony be allowed into government? (The answer is no) Here's a party rundown:
New Unity Centre-right party of former PM Laimdota Straujuma, who lasted one year in the job before resigning due to various screw ups and clashes with the controversial party head, and her party - formerly the dominant member of the governing coalition - has collapsed along with her; it may not reach the threshold thus time around. The purpose of Unity - indicated by its name - was to present a unified liberal-conservative front against Harmon led by popular leader Valdis Dombrovskis. Now he is gone, it has completely devolved into factional bickering between the liberals and the conservatives. The Union of Greens and Farmers Party of incumbent Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis (technically, he belongs to a small associated regional party), as well as President Raimonds Vejonis, the ZZS were formed in 2002 and have pretty much never left the government since. They are technically an alliance between the Green Party and the Farmer's Union, an alliance stemming from the post-Soviet break-up of the industrial, collectivized farms to homesteads owned by their original families. This has led to a loyal rural electorate, especially in Western Latvia. Formerly controlled and funded by olicharch Aivars Lembergs, he may have lost his grip. Like Unity, they are anti-Moscow and Atlanticist, promising never to ally with Harmony, as well as to tackle money laundering (see this politico article on divisive Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola. (https://www.politico.eu/article/dana-reizniece-ozola-latvia-money-laundering-mud-fight/) National Alliance Final member of the outgoing government, NA is a right-wing nationalist party (can fairly be labeled as far-right; one of its two constituent parties has its origins in a nasty gang of NAzi apologists) that uses its presence in government to ensure that no concession can be made on the Russophone issue. Standard far right lines on things like refugees, LGBT etc. Polling at high single digits; they got 17% last time - they have been undermined by the more, um, normal populist right wing party, the New Conservatives. [/url]Harmony Harmony is a self-defined Social Democratic party that since its inception has won a plurality of votes and seats off a loyal base, including most of Latvia's Russophones. Led by the Mayor of Riga, Nils Usakovs (who is not the Prime Ministerial candidate), Harmony is treated with deep suspicion by many ethnic Latvians, who worry that their small country is infiltrated with Kremlin proxies. Indeed of the major parties, it is the most dovish on Russia: it is against economic sanctions and did not condemn the invasion of Crimea; however it cut off its "agreements" with the United Russia Party. Harmony wants to increase spending on education and healthcare and to defend the rights of Russophones. It is expected to get around 20-25% of the vote; they got 23% of the vote last time around. "who does the country belong to?" In 2014 a populist group called the Alliance of Regions was elected, an association of random regional parties. One MP, former actor Arturss Kaimiņs, left within the year, irritated at the leaders working with Unity; forming his own anti-elite party, the KPV. He is your standard vaguely crazy right-wing anti-establishment guy, known for carrying a camera with him at all times so he can constantly stream his activities on YouTube. This includes a video of him having an argument with a flight crew because there were no in-flight announcements in Latvian; which caused him to be arrested. His policies are boilerplate stuff: more support to SME's, reduce bureaucracy to help orphans etc. Rapidly increased in popularilty after he was arrested for possible graft, but has fallen a bit to earth since then. Wants to be Donald Trump, to the extent he did a "notice me senpai" to POTUS: () New Conservative Party New right-wing party led by a former Minister of Justice that promises to defend Latvian traditions, received a big boost in popularity when they got two former employees from the anti-corruption bureau that were believed to be fired for getting too close to the big guys. Have carved a useful niche as the nice version of NA; they became the joint largest right-wing party in Riga's council last election alongside another newcomer. To a certain extent you could see them as one of the successors to Unity's Right wing. Development/For! And you could see this coalition, PAR, as an inheritor of Unity's liberal factions.. The two constituent parties want to "breach the gap" between the Russophones and the Latvian-speakers, proclaiming that they appreciate the "individual freedom and equal treatment before the law regardless of nationality, race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, or physical and mental abilities". Is all over the place in polling at the moment. Nobody else will get in. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 03, 2018, 09:55:29 AM Not sure, but to me, the New Conservatives seem to be more of a competitor to (New) Unity than to the National Alliance. I suspect the National Alliance are losing votes to Who Owns The State: protest voters may go there, "true believers" stay with the NA.
Poll of polls, September 30 (compared to GE2014): Harmony 21% (-2%) New Conservatives 14% (new) Greens and Farmers 13% (-7%) Who Owns The State 12% (new) National Alliance 11% (-6%) New Unity 9% (-13%) Development/Movement For! 8% (new) Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 12:20:34 PM LTV exit poll
Harmony: 19.4% Movement For!: 13.4% National Alliance 12.6% New Conservative Party: 12.4% Who owns the state?: 11.5% Union of Greens and Farmers:9.7% Unity: 6.9% Latvian Association of Regions 3.5% Threshold is 5% () Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: IceAgeComing on October 06, 2018, 12:27:09 PM That Greens number basically forces a change in PM you'd think - they probably could have gotten away with being the second biggest party and leading it but not like that. Other than that its broadly in line with the exit polls: a million parties all at around the same number.
The Progressives, who are probably the closest thing to a mainstream centre-left party, got just less than 3%. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 12:31:12 PM The two parties who have held the PM position during the term, Unity and Unions of Greens and Farmers both drop significantly, and will likely be the two smallest parties in parliament. Three new parties enter parliament. Harmony remains the biggest party, but will somebody work with them now?
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 12:32:03 PM Very strong result for Movement For, even weaker than expected for Unity and quite bad for Greens and Farmers. Perhaps a somewhat underwhelming figure for the New Conservatives too.
A coalition excluding both Harmony and Movement For will probably require all "non-left" parties (and NA would be the biggest...), so perhaps they will end up having to form a coalition with Harmony anyway. But the question is who would do it. NA and Who Owns The State won't, so it would depend on the New Conservatives, Greens and Farmers, or Unity, and they would perhaps have to cooperate with Movement For too, which would be quite difficult in and of itself for the socially conservative parties too. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: IceAgeComing on October 06, 2018, 12:35:46 PM I'd think that PAR is clearly the much more likely coalition partner than Harmony - and we have had liberals in coalitions with... groups like whatever the NA is in coalition before to keep them out. Probably one of the few places where you get liberals working with people who seem to have an unnatural liking of the SS...
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 12:36:38 PM LTV coverage here: https://ltv.lsm.lv/lv/tieshraide/velesanu-nakts.-saeimas-velesanas-2018/live.360/
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 12:45:05 PM PAR seem to be a special kind of liberal though, I'm quite astounded by their performance if the exit polls are correct. Who votes for them, apart from highly educated liberals (with or without latte) in Riga (and how many of them are there really)? I had the impression that they were basically similar to Bulgaria Yes, especially with their focus on LGBT rights and all that. But you are the expert on the Baltics and you may be right: they might actually be coalitionable, but they would have to swallow a lot of their socially liberal demands.
For a somewhat stable government it would probably be best if the New Conservatives came second... Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 12:55:39 PM Results should come here: https://www.lsm.lv/velesanu-rezultati-2018/
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 12:56:43 PM The map should be interesting.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 01:20:08 PM This page suggests that Union of Greens and Farmers could join Harmony.
Quote The question in the minds of many political analysts and voters is whether the Union of Greens and Farmers will join with Harmony to form a majority government coalition. https://en.rebaltica.lv/2018/08/who-is-who-in-upcoming-latvian-parliamentary-elections/ Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 01:47:46 PM First real results are starting to come in.
https://sv2018.cvk.lv/pub/ElectionResults 3.02% counted Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 02:35:59 PM 10.5% counted. PAR will probably increase once more of the Riga vote starts coming in. Who owns the state? and ZZS are higher than in the exit poll so far, but some of that could be do to overrepresentation in the (rural?) areas counted first?
() Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 03:36:17 PM 10.5% counted. PAR will probably increase once more of the Riga vote starts coming in. Who owns the state? and ZZS are higher than in the exit poll so far, but some of that could be do to overrepresentation in the (rural?) areas counted first? () Some of this movement seems to be happening now. PAR up to 10.1%, ZZS down to 12.0%, KPV LV down to 14.2%. I guess the movement will continue in that direction, so it could be very close between several parties for 2nd. Right now, I think KPV LV looks like it could hold onto it? Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 03:43:58 PM So I'm on that page now, but I don't see how much of the vote is in. 658/1078 probably refers to municipalities but that doesn't tell us a great lot.
Interesting that PAR seems to be doing about as well in Kurzeme, in the West, as in Riga. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 03:44:20 PM Current seat distribution
() Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Lord Halifax on October 06, 2018, 03:46:19 PM So I'm on that page now, but I don't see how much of the vote is in. 658/1078 probably refers to municipalities but that doesn't tell us a great lot. Interesting that PAR seems to be doing about as well in Kurzeme, in the West, as in Riga. There are only 110 municipalities. It must be polling stations. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 03:47:19 PM So a New Conservative + KPV LV + NA + Greens and Farmers government is at least numerically possible. But on AAD Politicus said that the New Cons and NA apparently have such a bad relationship that it may be difficult to have them join a coalition together.
On another note, it would be hilarious if the KPV LV guy became PM. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 03:53:27 PM The narrowing continues. KPV LV down to 13.8% and PAR up to 10.7%. New Conservatives are at 13.1% and with their quite equally distributed vote, they seem likely to finish 2nd in seats, even if they don't manage it in votes.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 03:54:08 PM Seems like a disproportional amount of the vote currently in is from Russian-inhabited Latgale. Which probably means PAR and NA will still go up and Harmony will go down by a bit, exactly in line with the exit polls.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 04:25:15 PM KPV LV leader Artuss Kaimiņ says the party expect to get a lot of votes from expats in UK and Ireland, which apparently are yet to come in.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 04:29:27 PM PAR passes ZZS to enter 4th place. They are 11.000 votes behind New Conservatives in 3rd and 14.000 votes behind KPV LV in 2nd. That seems like a lot of ground to make up, although I guess Riga votes are still underrepresented in the current count. Haven't found any information about whether expats votes are counted today and how many votes are expected.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 04:48:10 PM KPV LV leader Artuss Kaimiņ says the party expect to get a lot of votes from expats in UK and Ireland, which apparently are yet to come in. Let's see if NA can still pass ZZS. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 06, 2018, 04:52:08 PM KPV LV leader Artuss Kaimiņ says the party expect to get a lot of votes from expats in UK and Ireland, which apparently are yet to come in. Let's see if NA can still pass ZZS. Yep. Found the below comment on Latvian Radio. Google Translated. "Currently, a quarter of the diaspora's vote is counted. The leader is KPV LV, followed by Development / Par. But the influence of the diaspora on the overall election results should not be overestimated, according to journalist Sallija Benfeld." Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 05:04:42 PM The last vote dump (not sure if actually from the UK or Ireland) has indeed increased the gap between KPV LV, which are now well over 14%, and the New Cons; and NA has overtaken ZZS. Harmony now below 20%.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 06, 2018, 06:28:31 PM On current numbers the seat distribution would be:
Harmony 24 New Cons 16 KPV LV 15 NA 13 PAR 13 ZZS 11 New Unity 8 Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 07, 2018, 04:05:43 AM With 16 polling places remaining
() Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 07, 2018, 07:10:21 AM All votes are in. One seat shifted from Harmony to KPV LV.
Harmony 19.4%, 23 seats (-1) KPV LV 14.3%, 16 seats (new) New Conservative Party 13.6%, 16 seats (new) PAR 12%, 13 seats (new) National Alliance 11%, 13 seats (-4) ZZS/Greens and Farmers 9.9%, 11 seats (-10) New Unity 6.7%, 8 seats (-15) Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: bigic on October 07, 2018, 09:03:29 AM No government without Harmony, KPV LV or NA possible :(
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: DavidB. on October 07, 2018, 09:50:25 AM Because of the fact that KPV LV is now equal with the New Conservatives in terms of seats (and was always bigger in terms of PV), Kaimins would now have the most legitimate claim to the position of Prime Minister in any coalition not including Harmony. And Harmony isn't going to be in the coalition.
Would place my bets on KPV LV and the New Cons and then some combination of NA, ZZS and New Unity with a majority - PAR seems less likely given the profile of KPV LV and the New Cons, but could also be included instead of any of these others, who really knows. Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan on October 07, 2018, 09:55:15 AM I doubt that Latvian parties would like to have coalition with KPV LV which had some allegations about financing from Russia and ties with Moscow.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 07, 2018, 10:11:11 AM LSM thinks a broad centre-right coalition is the most likely, and focus quite a lot on the role of the President:
Quote Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis will face a tricky decision in the near future when he will have to nominate a potential Prime Minister to attempt to form a new government coalition. Though the self-styled social democrat Harmony party topped the poll this time around with 20% of the vote, it is unlikely Vējonis will choose Prime Ministerial candidate Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis as his nominee. Harmony, which draws much of its support from Latvia's large Russian minority, has topped the poll in the past but has never been in government as "Latvian" parties have tended to band together to form a large enough bloc to prevent Harmony having any chance of a workable parliamentary majority. It is even less likely Vējonis will choose Aldis Gobzems of the new and overtly populist KPV LV party, which finished in second place with 14%, as Vējonis said before the vote he would be looking for a nominee willing to carry on with the general direction of the outgoing administration in several key areas rather than introduce the radical changes that were part of KPV LV's election program. Behind that pair of parties is a clutch of right-of-center parties with 10% to 13% of the vote and the formerly powerful New Unity party now trailing with just over 6% of the vote. That makes a four or five party right of center alliance perhaps the most likely bet to replace the current three-party coalition. Though regarded a a safe pair of hands, it might prove difficult to nominate outgoing Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis again if it is confirmed that his Greens and Farmers Union party saw a significant fall in support and it finished in sixth place. Former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister Artis Pabriks is likely to be a front runner for the nomination. He is the PM candidate for the new For Development/For! alliance, which finished in fourth place. Third placed Janis Bordans of the New Conservative Party, a former Justice Minister, is another possibility, though his antipathy for his former party, the National Alliance, may prove a sticking point. Similarly, the National Alliance's candidate, MEP Roberts Zīle is generally regarded as a capable politician but the bad blood between the National Alliance and the New Conservatives might stymie his chances too. Another possibility - though a very small one - would be the nomination of a non-partisan candidate to try and bring parties together, though sucha controversial move would only be likely after protracted negotiations had proven fruitless. Where such a unifying force might be found would perhaps be no easier for Vējonis than the other alternatives in front of him. Vējonis indicated via Twitter October 7 that he would start consultations with political parties in two weeks' time. Usually the parties will have talked among themselves in a more informal manner before that so that he has some idea of the likely alliances and antagonisms of any coalition model. He also repeated his earlier pledge that the new government would have to "not change the current course of foreign policy and continue to strengthen national security" and be in favor of a balanced budget and continuation of key reforms. https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/commentary/latvian-election-results-pose-problem-for-president.a295064/ Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on October 13, 2018, 06:25:41 AM New Latvian Saeima will be slightly younger, much more female. The number of Women MPs rise from 19 to 31 in the 100-MP Saema. The average lowers from 49.1 to 47.3 years.
There are talks of a government with New Conservatives, KPV LV, For Development/For!, The National Alliance and New Unity. "The potential next prime minister, Janis Bordans of the New Conservative party (JKP) who has been taking the leading role in negotiations thus far, on Friday afternoon presented his vision of a coalition of five political forces, including a suggested division of ministerial portfolios. In his press conference Bordans emphasized that the proposed model of the five-party coalition will not be extended to include ZZS."We see that there is a unique opportunity to form a government without Harmony and the Greens and Farmers Union," Bordans said."" https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/five-party-coalition-being-discussed-with-zzs-out-in-the-cold.a295807/ Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: bigic on November 14, 2018, 12:56:29 PM A KPV-JKP-A/Par-NA-JV coalition is not possible - A/Par, NA and JV pulled out of coalition talks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/three-latvian-parties-end-coalition-talks-in-blow-to-pm-s-effort Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on December 06, 2018, 08:33:56 AM Gobzems demands Saturday decision from New Conservatives
Quote Prime Ministerial nominee Aldis Gobzems on December 6 gave a deadline to the New Conservative Party (JKP) to decide whether or not to join his proposed coalition government. Speaking on LTV's Morning Panorama show, Gobzems said JKP have until Saturday evening to say yes or no to his plan, which forsees a five-party coalition comprising his own KPV LV party, JKP, the National Alliance, New Unity and the Greens and Farmers Union (ZZS). From their formation, through the election campaign and into coalition talks, the New Conservatives have continually insisted they will not work with ZZS, which they regard as an oligarch-controlled party with serious corruption issues. For them to do a U-turn and enter government alongside ZZS would risk them losing a huge amount of credibility with their supporters, many of whom turned to the new party because of its tough anti-corruption stance and specifically anti-ZZS stance. As recently as December 5, JKP leader Jānis Bordāns said his party had not changed its mind. He confirmed as much on December 6 by issuing a call on Facebook to form a four-party government without ZZS and saying it would still have a majority in the new parliament with 53 seats. Bordāns went as far as to say that it would gladly cede the two ministerial positions offered to ZZS in the new government. "The government is ready, everything is laid on a plate. It's laid out for the New Conservative Party. They are offered four ministerial portfolios where they can implement their ideas," Gobzems said. "Is the JKP afraid to take responsibility?" asked Gobzems, in what looks like another act of brinkmanship by the man who has taken to describing the highly fractured political situation as if voters had given him an overwhelming mandate. In fact KPV LV controls 16 seats in the 100-seat Saeima."The government can only be torpedoed by the JKP. I would like to ask the JKP to think and contemplate whether torpedoing is a right and a stately step by 8 p.m. on Saturday evening," Gobzems said. If JKP fails to climb on board with ZZS in the new coalition model, it seems likely President Raimonds Vējonis will turn to a third prime ministerial candidate, two months after parliamentary elections divided Saeima between seven different parties. However, Gobzems' gambit did not appear to have worked with JKP leader Jānis Bordans responding on social media by saying his party was ready for four-party talks excluding the "unacceptable" ZZS, and that he was confident KPV LV would support this position. Therefore it would now seem it is Gobzems' turn to do a U-turn and offer a four-party coalition instead of a five-party coalition - or see his dream of becoming prime minister put to the sword. https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/gobzems-demands-saturday-decision-from-new-conservatives.a302009/ Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: bigic on December 10, 2018, 09:39:05 AM The government formation process is still a mess, as far as I can see.
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on December 11, 2018, 05:07:40 AM The government formation process is still a mess, as far as I can see. Yes, the President says Gobzems has exhausted his attempt to become PM. He will talk with the parties again, and find agreement on who could be the next candidate. Gobzems said he believed the country was heading towards new elections Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: bigic on December 11, 2018, 11:19:20 AM Is a solution that includes Harmony in some way likely? Never say never...
Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on December 17, 2018, 04:00:23 PM We might bizarrely end up with a government led by New Unity, the smallest party in parliament and one that got completely destroyed in the election. However, the other centre-right parties in the governing parties and their leaders have strong personal and political grudges against each other, and others seem to have very few political competences. So by process of exclusion, we are now left with New Unity's Krijānis Kariņ, a MEP. He hopes to form a five-party government with Development/For!, JKP, KPV LV and National Alliance. He proposes that New Unity has the PM, Finance Minister and Foreign Minister post while the remaining parties share all the other posts.
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/new-unity-proposes-five-party-latvian-government.a303295/ Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: Diouf on January 23, 2019, 09:25:10 AM Latvia gets a new government led by Krijānis Kariņ
Quote Nearly four months after parliamentary elections held on October 6, 2018, the Latvian parliament or Saeima on January 23 finally approved a new government. The five-party coalition will be headed by Latvian-American dual citizen Krijānis Kariņ, until recently a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and will consist of his own New Unity party plus the New Conservatives, the Development/For! alliance, the National Alliance plus most of the KPV LV party. Though the parties in some cases make uneasy bedfellows, broadly speaking the coalition might be characterized as center-right in character. 61 Saeima deputies voted in favor of the government and 39 voted against. Speaking to Saeima ahead of the vote, Kariņ said his number one priority would be to complete the clean-up of Latvia's financial sector as failure to do so would be "a threat to the whole of society." He also noted Russian aggression in Eastern Ukraine and elsewhere as an external threat and promised Latvia would "continue its Euro-Atlantic course" under his watch. "That will not change," he said. In response, Harmony's Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis said the government would "split society" and listed pre-election promises from all of the parties involved in the coalition that are notable by their absence in the government's proposed legislative program. Dombrovskis also pointed out the fact that Kariņ himself had not stood in the Saeima elections and that he represented the smallest party in Saeima. Prime Minister Arturs Krijānis Kariņ (New Unity) Defense Minister/deputy PM Artis Pabriks (Development/For!) Justice Minister/deputy PM Jānis Bordāns (New Conservatives) Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs (New Unity) Economics Minister Ralfs Nemiro (KPV LV) Finance Minister Jānis Reirs (New Unity) Interior Minister Sandis Ģirģens (KPV LV) Education and Science Minister Ilga uplinska (New Conservatives) Culture Minister Dace Melbārde (National Alliance) Welfare Minister Ramona Petraviča (KPV LV) Environment and Regional Development Minister Juris Pūce (Development/For!) Transport Minister Tālis Linkaits (New Conservatives) Health Minister Ilze Viņķele (Development/For!) Agriculture Minister Kaspars Gerhards (National Alliance) https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/latvia-gets-a-new-government-led-by-krisjanis-karins.a306967/ Title: Re: 6th October, Latvian elections Post by: IceAgeComing on January 23, 2019, 12:47:22 PM Can't see KPV LV lasting for very long based on that but we'll see - that is the perfect example of a party that historically lasts for all of one term before fragmenting. Other than that an entirely typical Latvian government: led by a person who didn't stand in the election and by the smallest party in the Parliament and designed to exclude Harmony from government.
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