It just happened. Just some minutes ago the Latvian government confirmed the MEP Valdis Dombrovskis (EPP-ED) as new Prime Minister of Latvia. After weeks of negotiations about the best candidates for the ministers, neverending newspaper articles, TV news and information online about the new Cabinet of Ministers, it has happened.
How does it affect European Parliament? Very easily. As Dombrovskis needs to lead Latvia now, instead of him there will be a new MEP from Latvia till the elections. Her name is already known - Liene Liepiņa.
The new Latvian MEP Liene Liepiņa
For me, who is not inside politics so much and not following it day by day, her name was unknown and I didn’t know anything about her before I read in the newspaper that she’ll be the new MEP. The first hand was to another politician Ainars Latkovskis, because he was the next in “New Era” list of candidates for EP back in 2004, but he didn’t accept the offer to go to EP for 100 days and said that he’ll be more useful in Latvia. Liepiņa confirmed that she’d be ready to move to Brussels, so good luck for her!
In 2003 - a year before Latvia joined EU - Liepiņa was an observer of Latvia in EP, meaning that she has knowledge about the work of EP. The leader of “European Movement Latvia” Andris Gobiņš writes that Liepiņa would be a good added value for the EP. She was also a member of the previous Saeima (Latvian government) and is a an interpreter. The same as some other politicians, also she isn’t born in Latvia, but abroad - in Germany, afterwards moved to Sweden and in 1992 right after the independence of Latvia - back to here.
Good luck to her!
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Heh, interesting - a lot of similarities to our President…
In her biography or what exactly?