🇱🇻 Latvia has a new government. The parliament in Riga confirmed the previous welfare minister Evika Silina as the new prime minister. 53 MPs voted for the three-way alliance of the 48-year-old politician from the liberal-conservative ruling party Jauna Vienotiba - with 39 votes against. This Baltic EU and NATO country borders Russia and its ally Belarus.
The lawyer succeeds her party colleague, Krisjanis Karins, who resigned in mid-August, and who will become the new foreign minister. In her speech in parliament, Silina said the country of 1.9 million people would stick to its Euro-Atlantic course and continue to support Ukraine, which was attacked by Russia. “As long as we have an aggressor country in our neighborhood, security will be the top priority for the Latvian government,” said Silina.
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