Latvian Political Monitor

@EAkimovs Exactly what security protocol violation?

Latvia's overall financial situation is an exact mirror of AirBaltic - we live off borrowed money, there is no income, and we simply spend. If we continue like this, at some point we will be right where AirBaltic is. Read the full interview below ⏬️ https://t.co/5XsCOauXWX

@VilnisKirsis @Olafs_Pulks @RigasDome @Jauna_Vienotiba Great work, I use this route almost every day both by car and by bike👍

@wannax_j @aseradens Then rather Arvils. Don't you feel the irony?🫠

Registered unemployment in Vidzeme is lower than the Latvian average: 4.1% versus 4.6%. People are working. However, last year the average gross wage in Vidzeme was €365 per month lower than in the country as a whole. That is why our goal is more well-paid jobs in the regions. For the UNITED LIST, the priorities are clear: security and the economy. A secure state gives entrepreneurs confidence to invest. Orderly state finances allow investment in development. Our task is to ensure that investment and better-paid jobs also reach Vidzeme and other Latvian regions. A person should not have to leave their municipality to receive decent pay for their work. 💶 Video: LTV Vidzeme leaders' debate “Choose the Future!” (24.09.)

Municipalities are an entire parallel system (to the central government), which in total costs more than the average for OECD countries. A politically very strong group, which is why they also manage to take more from the budget. But. The basic problem behind the costliness is teachers’ salaries; the state provides their base. If education policy is a priority at 5 and the Ministry of Education and Science recently tried to introduce classes of three children, then in the end you come to kaiser-court politics. Several “governesses” for every child. And that is simply very expensive. That is why the number of children is falling, but spending is rising.

On Elksniņš's office door, which every Daugavpils economic manager sees before the morning meeting, is @aseradens. The minister knew that next year a budget crisis would set in. He knew where their own tradition of squabbling would lead, but he slipped off the stage, so now others have to swallow what Vienotība cooked up🫠

That's so, and? Right next to them are the French, for example, there are other plants. Investments go to Latvia, jobs and taxes too. The worst is something else. New people haven't come for about 10-20 years, that development is basically at the expense of the existing ones. Good that some of them invest. And it's important to keep them in Latgale, because some have thought of moving away, they try to talk them out of it.

In essence yes, but unfortunately it was not for Latvia to decide.

Today I was in Daugavpils, and we also visited several companies. I was surprised. They produce world-class equipment that is exported to 170 countries. German police, foreign services, airports. What kind of equipment? Passport inspection scanners, for example. Equipment for examining forged documents and the like. Our airport has them too. There is only one country in the world where their operations are planned to be cancelled. That is Latvia. Which country to evacuate to? Maybe not necessary. We will try to fix this legislator's mistake.

@GundegaFelicity @Braze_Baiba @AndrisKulbergs For example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should have timely submitted information to the Cabinet of Ministers that the relevant situation was developing.

#krīviski https://t.co/t6liPTqYfN

✅New period of European structural funds; ✅Development of infrastructure facilities; ✅Financial situation in border municipalities, to discuss these and other important issues, today I met with the leadership of Daugavpils City Council. https://t.co/vUC9568rCR

#krīviski https://t.co/ZbLjs2rYUW

@GundegaFelicity @Braze_Baiba @AndrisKulbergs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mrs. Braže primarily need to do their own job. And this Russian bandit story is a direct task of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Am I wrong?

@ltvzinas People still haven't understood that electricity produced by wind and solar panels simply doesn't work and cannot operate without stabilization by electricity produced by hydro and thermal power plants…

@guntars_h I join your opinion.

@GundegaFelicity @Braze_Baiba @AndrisKulbergs Gundega, excuse me, but where do you see the mentioned demagoguery, if I simply point out the failure to act?