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	GENERAL ELECTIONS IN LATVIA
		But gaining Latvia citizenship is still a difficult task: a minimum of five year's residence is required likewise good knowledge of the Latvian language, the country's history, culture and Constitution.
		July 1995 Latvia granted any person who had been forced to leave their country during the Soviet or Nazi occupation the chance to retain the nationality they had gained in their host country in addition to Latvian citizenship.
		March 2005 a town councillor admitted having received a sum of 10,000 lats for voting in favour of a candidate in the election of the town's mayor.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/lettonie/legislatives/default.htm (2813 words)

	Latvia - Search View - MSN Encarta
		It is bounded on the west by the Baltic Sea, on the north by Estonia and the Gulf of Rīga (a deep inlet of the Baltic Sea), on the east by Russia, and on the south by Belarus and Lithuania.
		Latvia is a land of numerous rivers, lakes, and wetlands.
		Latvia’s longest river is the Gauja, which covers a distance of 452 km (281 mi) as it winds its way through a forested setting in northeastern Latvia.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761577313__1/Latvia.html (5896 words)

	History of Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Latvia claimed de facto independence on August 21, 1991 in the aftermath of the failed Soviet coup attempt.
		In autumn 1991 Latvia reimplemented significant portions of its 1922 constitution, and in spring 1993 the government took a census to determine eligibility for citizenship.
		Forty-one percent of Latvia's population is ethnically non-Latvian, yet almost three-fourths of all residents are citizens of Latvia Naturalization criteria include a conversational knowledge of Latvian, a loyalty oath, renunciation of former citizenship, a 5-year residency requirement, and a basic knowledge of the Latvian history.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/latvia.html (1906 words)

	Latvia Election Report [Complete Document] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE monitored the elections in Latvia at the invitation of the Latvian Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
		Latvia regained independence and reinstated its 1922 Constitution in the midst of the unsuccessful August 1991 coup d'tat in Moscow.
		In the elections to the Saeima on 5-6 June 1993, the status of the Soviet-era immigrants was one of the main issues, along with Soviet troop withdrawal and economic reforms.
	www.hri.org /docs/inter/95-10-25.doc.html (5511 words)

	Elections in Latvia - Embassy of Denmark Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Elections in Latvia - Embassy of Denmark Latvia
		On October 7th Latvia held its fifth election to the Saeima (the Parliament) since gaining independence in 1991.
		The election campaign has been marked not only by the efforts of various parties to position themselves on different political views but also by corruption, scandals and third party campaigns, which may be on the border of the permissible according to the current election law.
	www.ambriga.um.dk /en/servicemenu/News/ElectionsInLatvia.htm (353 words)

	Latvia (04/06)
		Terrain: Fertile low-lying plains predominate in central Latvia, highlands in Vidzeme and Latgale to the east, and hilly moraine in the western Kurzeme region.
		Foreign investment in Latvia remains high, as both Western and Eastern investors are trying to establish a foothold in the new EU member state, as well as to take advantage of Latvia's stable macroeconomic environment, central location in the region, and cheap labor.
		Latvia's defense concept is based upon four basic pillars--collective defense as a member of NATO, professionalization of the armed forces, support and coordination with civil society, and international military cooperation.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5378.htm (4597 words)

	Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Elections - ...
		The limited election observation mission will focus on the legal framework and its implementation, the work of the election administration at central and regional levels, the political campaign, the media coverage of the campaign, and issues related to the participation of minority populations in the election process.
		ODIHR election monitors speak to a member of the electoral commission at a polling station in Riga during parliamentary elections in Latvia, 7 October, 2006.
		The ODIHR observed elections in Latvia in 1998 and 2002.
	www.osce.org /odihr-elections/item_12_20611.html (333 words)

	Elections in Latvia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The parliamentary elections are held on the first Saturday of October.
		Locally, Latvia elects municipal councils, consisting of 7 to 60 members, depending on the size of the municipality, also by proportional representation for a four year term.
		Latvia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Latvia (149 words)

	Results of the 9th Saeima elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Latvia held its parliamentary elections on Saturday, October 7.
		A total of 19 political parties fielding 1,024 candidates competed for 100 seats in the parliament to be elected for a four-year term in proportional elections.
		A total of 901,796 voters or 62.28 per cent of Latvia's eligible voters cast ballots in the general election.
	www.latvia-usa.org /resof9thsaei.html (254 words)

	MINELRES: Gennady Kortov on minorities in Latvia, March 1999
		Unfortunately, the major peculiarity present in Latvia is the fact that 28% of Latvia's population have not been recognised as the state's citizens after the restoration of independence in 1991.
		On October 15, 1991 the Parliament of Latvia adopted a resolution "On Restoration of the Rights of the Citizens of the Republic of Latvia and General Conditions of Naturalisation." According to this resolution, to the citizenship of Latvia were admitted only those residents, which had it before June 17, 1940, as well as their descendants.
		" (that is, "Latvia for the ethnic Latvians!
	www.minelres.lv /count/latvia/Minor_99.htm (3064 words)

	Latvia Update - European Forum
		The period before the elections was characterized by a regular decrease of support for Europe among the population.
		Prime Minister of Latvia Indulis Emsis is one of the founders of Latvian Green Party and served as Minister for the environment in the 1990s, concentrating on the Baltic Sea ecological problems.
		The voter turnout on the election day was 41,3 %, which is higher than the average of the ten new member states (26.4%), but considerably lower than the turnout during the referendum on the accession to the EU in April 2003 (72,5%).
	www.europeanforum.net /country/latvia (5324 words)

	Latvia's coalition government takes majority in parliamentary elections - iht,europe,Latvia Election - Europe - ...
		It is the first time in Latvia that a sitting government has maintained its grip on power since the country broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991.
		The election was the country's first since joining the European Union and NATO in 2004.
		Latvia will host a NATO summit next month, seen as a way to cement the country's place in the international arena.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/10/09/europe/EU_POL_Latvia_Election.php (577 words)

	LATVIA: parliamentary elections Saeima, 1993
		Elections were held for all the elective seats in Parliament provided for in the reinstated Republic of Latvia Constitution of 1922.
		The results of the elections – considered to be the first truly free ones in Latvia in 62 years – saw the victory of the centre-right Latvia Way group led by interim President of the Republic Anatolis Gorbunovs.
		The elections were observed by several countries and international organizations and were generally recognized to have been free and fair.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2177_93.htm (401 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Latvia’s local elections on March 9 proved an upset for the governing coalition.
		Local elections in Latvia have been marred in the past by voter apathy (58.5 percent in the May 1994 elections), and widespread voter and media confusion which has contributed to many mistakes in filling out ballot cards.
		While the vast majority within Latvia’s governing bodies hope for a future within both the EU and NATO, the greatest obstacle within Latvia’s control is to find solutions to the divisive minority issue.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num2/constitutionwatch/latvia.html (1644 words)

	GENERAL ELECTIONS IN LATVIA
		Likewise the decision taken by the Farmers' Union and the Greens (ZZS) to choose the popular Mayor of Ventspils, Aivers Lemberg (For Latvia and Ventspils) as candidate for the position of Prime Minister was extremely controversial.
		According to a poll undertaken in August by the research centre SKDS less than three Latvians in ten said they were confident in their Parliament, a figure which has declined steadily: 27% in 2006, 37% in 2003, 31% in 2004 and 28% in 2005.
		With a GDP growth rate of 10% in 2005 Latvia is starting to suffer from a lack of labour in some sectors in particular.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/lettonie/legislatives/default2.htm (1682 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia: [TF] No. 26, 6 October 2002 [Parliamentary Elections]
		Arnis Cimdars underscored that these are still provisional results and that during the election night the division of seats in the parliament is calculated by number of voters turning out for the poll while actually the division is calculated by number of valid ballots which usually is lower than the turnout figure.
		After the previous parliamentary elections the names of the new MPs were made public three weeks after the elections while this time the CEC hopes to do it faster.
		The International Election Observation Mission that observed the general elections in Latvia said the poll in Latvia on 5 October 2002 proceeded in line with the international standards.
	www.am.gov.lv /en/?id=4166 (482 words)

	Politics of Latvia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the June 5-6, 1993 elections wherein over 90% of the electorate participated, eight of Latvia's 23 registered political parties passed the four percent threshold to enter parliament.
		Local elections in 2001 represented a victory for the left-of-center parties in several municipalities, including Rīga. A leftist coalition in the Rīga City Council elected Gundars Bojārs, a Social Democrat, to the office of mayor.
		Latvia has no territorial claims towards Russia, but demands an acknowledgement from Russia of the annexation of the small part of the Abrene region, since this land was previously part of Latvia and was detached from it by the Soviet Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Latvia (1721 words)

	GENERAL ELECTIONS IN LATVIA
		Latvia is hosting the summit of heads of state and government members of NATO at the end of November.
		Forty year-old Aigars Kalvitis is a graduate in agriculture from the University of Latvia.
		Latvia, which was politically unstable for a long time (12 different government coalitions in 15 years), is the EU member country with the highest economic growth rate at present (10% last year and 12% in the first semester of 2006); it has always followed a liberal economic policy.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/lettonie/legislatives/resultat.htm (1566 words)

	Electoral Panorama / Panorama Electoral: 2006 Parliamentary Elections in Latvia
		Voters in the Republic of Latvia head to the polls on Saturday, October 7, 2006, to choose members of the national unicameral legislature, the Saeima.
		Cabinet instability is hardly new to Latvia: during the country's first period of independence between the two world wars, there were eighteen governments from 1918 to 1934, which on average lasted less than a year in office.
		Still, one of the major problems confronting Latvia is the integration of what remains a sizable number of Russian speakers, many of whom lack Latvian citizenship and therefore can't vote in elections.
	electionresources.org /panorama/2006/10/2006-parliamentary-elections-in-latvia.html (1252 words)

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