The number of mandates received by Harmony and New Unity in the newly elected Rīga City Council may be affected by the election ballots not included in the vote count due to them being unsealed, the Central Election Commission (CVK) told newswire LETA on September 1.
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As the scandal about the diesel exhaust cheat of Volkswagen (VW) cars is unfolding throughout the world with about 11 mln cars presumed affected, the local authorities are quite cautious and say if the cheat were discovered in Latvia, it would be a 'Brussels problem', reported Latvian Television's Russian-language program Segodnya Vecherom.