Gunta Līdaka, in charge of overseeing commercial television, has stepped down as board member at Latvia's media watchdog, the National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP), Līdaka told the press April 12.
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As of now, two right-of-center parties – the New Conservative Party (JKP), and the National Alliance party – support Egils Levits' candidacy as president of Latvia, reported LTV February 14. Levits meanwhile said his decision on whether to become a candidate depends on coalition-wide support.
This summer, MPs are electing the 13th Latvian president in what will be the first open presidential vote in history. While no official candidates have been named yet, it's unlikely current president Raimonds Vējonis will be elected for a second term, reported LTV February 7.
On February 6 former party leader Aldis Gobzems, who is being expelled from his own KPV LV party, has been removed from the party's parliamentary group.
Artuss Kaimiņš, a leading figure in the KPV LV party, has survived a no-confidence motion within the party and is to resume as the deputy head of the party group in parliament, reports LTV and Latvian Radio January 16.
On January 3 the KPV LV party decided it will resume coalition talks, with party leader Aldis Gobzems ceding the Interior Minister nomination that was contested by the four parties currently teamed up to set up a cabinet months after the October 6 general elections.
One woman's quest for freedom over flying the Latvian flag when she feels like it, not when the state mandates it, has come to fruition. On July 2, the Constitutional court of the Republic of Latvia ruled that the duty to fly the flag by privately-owned buildings cannot be enforced by fines, as it is unconstitutional.