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    The Saeima (Latvian pronunciation: [ˈsai.ma]) is the parliament of the Republic of Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who...
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    the Saeima (Latvian: Saeimas priekšsēdētājs; lit. "Chairperson of the Saeima") is the presiding officer of the Parliament of Latvia, the Saeima. If the...
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    speaker of the Saeima assumes the duties of the president. For example, after the death of Jānis Čakste, Pauls Kalniņš, the speaker of the Saeima, was acting...
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    2022, following the end of the term of the 13th Saeima elected in 2018. The 100 members of the Saeima are elected by open list, proportional representation...
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    Saeima of Latvia (Latvian: 14. Saeima) was elected in the 2022 Latvian parliamentary election held on 1 October 2022. The 100 members of the Saeima are...
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    the deputy speakers of the Saeima, the parliament of Latvia. Currently, two deputy speakers of the Saeima (Latvian: Saeimas priekšsēdētāja biedri) are...
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    Constitution. The constitution establishes the main bodies of government (Saeima, State President, Cabinet of Ministers, Courts, State Auditor); it consists...
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    Evika Siliņa (category Deputies of the 14th Saeima)
    in the 2022 Latvian parliamentary election and was elected to the 14th Saeima. On 6 December 2022, Siliņa was appointed as the Minister of Welfare in...
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    Fifth Saeima of Latvia was the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia in the period from July 6, 1993 to November 6, 1995. It was the first Latvian Saeima since...
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    unicameral Latvian parliament, the Saeima, is elected by direct popular vote every four years. The president is elected by the Saeima in a separate election, also...
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    The Thirteenth Saeima of Latvia was elected in the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election held on 6 October 2018. The Saeima's term commenced on 6 November...
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    Alfrēds Čepānis (category Deputies of the 5th Saeima)
    August 1943 – 26 April 2024) was a Latvian politician and the Speaker of the Saeima from 1996 to 1998. Čepānis was born in a Lithuanian and Belarusian family...
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    Daiga Mieriņa (category Speakers of the Saeima)
    - Latvijas Republikas 14.Saeima". titania.saeima.lv. Retrieved 11 January 2024. "Kūtris negūst atbalstu – rīko jaunas Saeimas spīkera vēlēšanas". www.lsm...
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    Conservatives, KPV LV, Development/For!, the National Alliance was approved by the Saeima on 23 January 2019. Alongside the Prime Minister's office, the alliance...
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    proposed as Prime Minister by President Edgars Rinkēvičs and elected by the Saeima. The government is a coalition between New Unity, Union of Greens and Farmers...
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    continued to hold the post of Speaker of the Saeima to which he was first elected during the 1st Saeima. 3rd Saeima gave confidence to the 2nd cabinet of Hugo...
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  • of six on the previous year, making it the fourth-largest party in the Saeima. After extensive negotiations with an aim to avoid Kremlin supporting powers...
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  • general instruction in Latvian public high schools. On 29 September 2022, Saeima passed in the final reading amendments that state that all schools and kindergartens...
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  • division of Latvia came into force on 1 July 2021. On 10 June 2020, the Saeima approved a municipal reform that would reduce the 110 municipalities and...
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  • later than 3 October 2026, following the end of the term of the fourteenth Saeima elected in 2022. LTV never released the November poll, because of its editorial...
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    The Progressives have 11 seats on Riga City Council and 10 seats in the Saeima but do not hold any seats in the European Parliament. The party is a successor...
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    Deputies of the 9th Saeima are the 100 deputies or members of the parliament of Latvia, the Saeima. Ninety-nine of those elected to 9th Saeima began their term...
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    Krišjānis Kariņš (category Deputies of the 8th Saeima)
    New Unity in 2018). After serving as a deputy in Latvia's parliament (the Saeima), as Minister of Economics, and also as a Member of the European Parliament...
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    Edvards Smiltēns (category Speakers of the Saeima)
    (born 18 September 1984) is a Latvian politician. He was Speaker of the Saeima from 2022 to 2023. Smiltēns was born in 1984 in Riga, Latvia. He received...
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    Standard of the prime minister of Latvia Standard of the speaker of the Saeima of Latvia Standard of the minister of defence of Latvia The standard of...
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  • The People's Parliaments or People's Assemblies (Latvian: Tautas Saeima; Lithuanian: Liaudies Seimas) were puppet legislatures put together after the show...
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  • Latvia does not recognize same-sex marriage. On 9 November 2023, the Saeima passed legislation establishing same-sex civil unions, which was subsequently...
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    Māris Kučinskis (category Deputies of the 8th Saeima)
    parliament, he took her seat in the 11th Saeima. In October 2014 he was elected as a Deputy of the 12th Saeima and became the Chairman of the Parliamentary...
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  • finance (1976–1982). Alfrēds Čepānis, 80, Latvian politician, speaker of the Saeima (1996–1998). Umm Fahad, 27, Iraqi social media personality, shot. Robin...
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    multi-member constituencies of the Saeima, the national legislature of Latvia. The constituency was established in 1922 when the Saeima was established following...
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