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	Latvian diplomatic service - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Latvian diplomatic service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In July - August 1940 Latvian envoys who continued to be accredited to the USA and UK governments made official protests against Soviet occupation and annexation of their countries.
		Members of Latvian diplomatic service in Western Countries continued to formulate and express the official opinion of the Republic of Latvia, and protected the interests of Latvia and their citizens abroad all time during 1940-1991.
		As mentioned above, the specific character of the Latvian foreign service activities is a real affirmation of the unique situation that the Republic of Latvia continued its existence de jure, and most of the countries in the world did not consider its annexation to be lawful and just.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Latvian-diplomatic-service.html (593 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.
		elections: president elected by Parliament for a four-year term (amended from a three-year term on 4 December 1997); election last held 17 June 1999 (next to be held by NA June 2003); prime minister appointed by the president
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Latvia (1468 words)

	Latvian parliamentary election, 1993 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections for 5th Saeima, the parliament of Latvia were held on June 5 and June 6, 1993.
		This was the first parliamentary elections in Latvia after its independence was restored in 1991.
		Latvijas Tautas Fronte (The Popular Front of Latvia), which was the ruling party before elections, received 2.6% of vote and did not win any seats in the parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latvian_parliamentary_election,_1993 (180 words)

	[ Kazakh Elections 2004 ]
		Local and regional officials, who until the local elections of September 2003 were chosen by the president, are responsible for selecting deputies for 32 of the 39 seats available in the Senate, or upper house of parliament.
		She charged that two rules set down by the election committee -- one concerning the system by which citizens of Kazakhstan living outside the country were allowed to vote, the other concerning the divisions of the districts themselves -- were unconstitutional.
		Indirect elections to the Senate, originally 47 seats, were held on 5 December 1995 and elections to the Mazhilis on 9 December, with run-off elections on 23 December 1995.
	www.rferl.com /specials/kazakhelections/introduction.asp (1522 words)

	Politics of Latvia
		Attempts to form right-of-center and leftist governments failed; 7 weeks after the election, a broad but fractious coalition government of six of the nine parties was voted into office under Prime Minister Andris Skele, a widely popular, nonpartisan businessman.
		In May 2000, a compromise candidate was found in the form of Andris Berzins, the Latvian Way mayor of Riga.
		Between local elections in 2001 and Saeima elections in 2002, two new parties formed: the conservative New Era Party led by Einārs Repse; and Christian Democratic Latvia's First Party.
	starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/p/po/politics_of_latvia.html (1354 words)

	Latvia Election Report [Complete Document] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to the Election Law the following individuals were barred from running in the elections: Those who were active in certain pro-Soviet organizations after 13 January 1991; those unable to certify their proficiency in the Latvian language; and, those who had been salaried staff of the KGB and other foreign intelligence services.
		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.
		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 (5512 words)

	Nations in Transit 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To date, Latvian NGOs have exercised influence in the content or passage of three NGO-related laws: the Law on Social Organizations and their Associations, the Law on State Guardianship, and the Law on Charity, which is still being developed.
		Latvian Internet providers are expected to go through a number of mergers, and as few as three Internet providers may be all that remain in operation in 2000.
		In the local elections of 1994 and 1997, voter turnout was low—58.5 percent in 1994 and 57 percent in 1997—and many ballots were marked incorrectly because of widespread confusion among voters and the media.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/nitransit/2000/latvia/latvia_democ.htm (5581 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Latvians remain content to “think left but vote right,” and the country is still one of the few in the postcommunist world never to have had a left-wing government.
		Latvian political parties used many innovative techniques to attract voters, including organizing beer festivals and hiring television celebrities to tour the country with politicians in order to attract an audience.This is not cheap.
		This means that Latvian parties spent a total of 2.8 lats ($4.70) per voter on this campaign, compared to 1.7 ($2.80) in the US and 0.4 ($0.70) in the UK.8 The wealthiest party is the People’s Party, having spent over 1.2 million lats ($2 million) on the campaign, more than double its nearest rivals.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol11_12num4_1/focus/auers.html (2198 words)

	List of election results - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is a list of election results from around the world.
		There is also a list of political parties and a list of politics by country.
		1981, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_election_results.html (330 words)

	Latvian National Independence Movement (LNNK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It won 15 seats out of 100 in 1993 parliamentary election and was an influential opposition party.
		LNNK won the municipal election in Latvian capital, Riga in 1994 but its popularity quickly faded after that.
		It lost half of its seats in the parliament in 1995 parliamentary election and eventually merged with Tevzemei un Brivibai (Fatherland and Freedom), another right-wing party with similar origins in the Latvian independence movement.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/Latvian_National_Independence_Movement_(LNNK) (153 words)

	TITLE: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2000: Latvia
		The October 1998 elections for the 100-seat Parliament and the national referendum to amend the Citizenship Law to meet European standards were free and fair.
		Free and fair elections for Parliament were held in 1998, and in June 1999 the Parliament elected the President.
		In the 1998 election, candidates from 6 of the 21 participating parties, representing a broad political spectrum, won Saeima seats, and 72 percent of eligible voters participated.
	www.terrorismcentral.com /Library/Government/US/StateDepartment/DemocracyHumanRights/2000/Europe/Latvia.html (5339 words)

	Books by Spring 1993 - Glimmer Train - 1117841588 excerpts
		The centrist Latvian Way party received a 33% plurality of votes and joined with the Farmers Union to head a center-right wing coalition government.Led by the opposition National Conservative Party, right-wing nationalists won a majority of the seats nationwide and also captured the Riga mayoralty in the May 29, 1994 municipal elections.
		Since her election, she has become one of the most popular political figures in Latvia.Local elections in 2001 represented a victory for the left-of-center parties in several municipalities, including Riga.
		After elections, Einārs Repse formed a government consisting of his New Era Party and 3 other parties.In 2003, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga was reelected to the presidency for the second term, until 2007.
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	RFE/RL Newsline, 04-03-17
		At the end of election week, posters appeared in Obninsk showing a radiant child hand in hand with two no-less-happy adults and bearing the words, "We are going to vote." In Rostov-na-Donu, mothers staying with their sick children in the central city hospital were told to get absentee ballots or not to return.
		Zdanoka, who is banned from running in Latvian parliamentary and local elections because of her post-January 1991 Communist Party membership (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 8 August 2002), said the PCTVL wants to establish and is willing to head a party representing ethnic Russians living in the European Union.
		The SLD, in a bloc with the Labor Union, won the parliamentary election in September 2001 with 42 percent of the vote.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2004/04-03-17.rferl.html (9798 words)

	World Homes Network - Latvia
		Repression of Latvian cultural and literary life was extreme during the 1960s and 1970s as a result of a purge of the Latvian Communist Party by Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev, which saw Latvian-born members replaced by those born in the USSR.
		A Latvian Popular Front was established Oct 1988 to campaign for independence and in the same month the prewar flag was readopted and official status given to the Latvian language.
		The Popular Front was decisively defeated in the June 1993 general election, and replaced by a coalition government centred around the Latvian Way, led by acting president Anatolijs Gorbunovs, and the Latvian Peasants' Union (LZS).
	www.world-homes.net /atlas/europe/eastern/latvia.htm (1142 words)

	Elections in Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elections in Latvia gives information on election and election results in Latvia.
		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.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Elections-in-Latvia.htm (179 words)

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		Following a summer 2003 parliamentary shake-up, the government lost its narrow parliamentary majority and now controls only 69 of the 150 seats; however, the coalition is relatively stable because of the parties' similar political philosophies and conflicts between opposition parties.
		The election of a pro-Western, reformist government in late 1998 further boosted close ties between the countries.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3430.htm (3507 words)

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	Latvian Mailer / Chat Reminder - October 12, 2005
		Among the guests were the chairman of the Latvian parliamentary fraction of the New Time Party Karlis Shadurskis, parliament members from the Fatherland and Freedom party Yuris Dobelis and Peteris Tabuns, and the former head of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Alexander Kirchsteins.
		As the parliamentary elections loom, far-right nationalists, making World War II revisionism and the lionization of Nazi helpers, one of their main ideological standpoints, are striving to mobilize the ultra-nationalist part of the electorate as much as possible," the press service said.
		Juris Lavrikovs, a Latvian in the European branch of the International Lesbian and Gay Association in Brussels, said next year's parliamentary elections could be the biggest reason for the proposed constitutional amendment.
	www.latvians.com /en/Mailer/issue-2005-10-12/2005_10_12.shtml (12804 words)

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		But many Western and local observers believe that these elections will be neither fair nor democratic because no opposition groups and parties will be represented.
		Uzbekistan will hold elections to its parliament, the Oliy Majlis, on 26 December 2004, and a presidential election sometime in 2007.
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	CIA - The World Factbook -- European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1967, the institutions of all three communities were formally merged into the European Community (EC), creating a single Commission, a single Council of Ministers, and the European Parliament.
		Members of the European Parliament were initially selected by national parliaments, but in 1979 the first direct elections were undertaken and they have been held every five years since.
		elections: the president of the European Commission is designated by member governments; the president-designate then chooses the other Commission members; the European Parliament confirms the entire Commission for a five-year term; election last held 18 November 2004 (next to be held 2009)
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		The March 31, 2002 Parliamentary and local Elections in Ukraine A Pre-Election Report by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, March 4, 2002.
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		A look at the Kazakh presidency and the criteria for registering, campaigning and becoming the head of state...
	www.rferl.org /specials/kazakhelections (216 words)

	Zinda 13 April 2005
		These elections where your only Assyrian slate failed, the reasons are many and are known to many of you, thus we don’t want to further discuss these reasons and causes.
		Thus, we urge the honorable spiritual fathers not to shun away from showing their noble stance being the valorous Assyrians as they were known throughout history despite afflictions and sacrifices.
		The Iraqi elections taught us many great lessons and the most important one of them is, you win when you have the numbers.
	www.zindamagazine.com /html/archives/2005/4.13.05/index_wed.php (13242 words)

	History of the Order
		Supporters point out that while in exile in the Latvian province of Mittau he awarded the Order to Tsars Paul I and Alexander I of Russia, Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, Count Rostopchine and General de Fersen.
		In 1865, Comte Jules Marie d’Anselme de Puisaye, a Zouave in the papal armies; the Vicomte de Boisbaudry in 1875; Baron Yves de Constancin in 1896, who was later to become commander of the Hospitaller Nobles of St Lazarus, a Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and of St Anne of Russia.
		A man of letters, he founded the Association of Parliamentary Journalists and was the director of the Revue Internationale, dying in 1914.
	www.saintlazarus.org.uk /history.htm (6786 words)

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		Kyrgyzstan held a presidential election on 10 July 2005 to replace ousted Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev, who fled the country in March.
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	Latvia Government 1998 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		elections: president elected by Parliament for a three-year term; election last held 18 June 1996 (next to be held by NA June 1999); prime minister appointed by the president
		elections: last held 30 September-1 October 1995 (next to be held 3 October 1998)
		election results: percent of vote by party - Saimnieks 18%, LC 17%, For Latvia 16%, TB 14%, LNNK 8%, Unity 8%, LSZ/LKDS 7%, Harmony 6%, Socialist 6%; seats by party - Saimnieks 18, LC 17, For Latvia 16, TB 14, LNNK 8, Unity 8, LSZ/LKDS 7, Harmony 6, Socialist 6
	www.greekorthodoxchurch.org /wfb1998/latvia/latvia_government.html (369 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Lithuania
		elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 13 June 2004 and 27 June 2004; premier appointed by the president on the approval of the Parliament
		elections: last held 8 October 2000 (next to be held NA October 2004)
		note: the voting results from the 2000 elections do not correspond to the make up of the Seimas, which has evolved into a number of factions, each made up of members of several parties
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