Latvian Political Monitor

This is important. https://t.co/Q6w6TBX9G0

Using EU Recovery Fund financing, the Children's Hospital has modernized operating rooms, established a Neuropsychological Development Center and a Simulation Training Center space. Money well invested. Significant for each of us who has ever visited this hospital with their child https://t.co/Bxf8DnfOBX

@CardinalisRavus And also a question—why the the heck should CSDD store payments for the last ​18 years?

Here officials must answer criminally for what they have done, and then maybe Graf's excellent corporate governance inserts will finally feel that there are no 'sacred cows'. The question is only how to measure material losses - possibly clients will start demanding compensation. https://t.co/xlRVdN9pCc

Maybe you will finally talk with your own JV party leaders and learn all the info — whoever asks this question gets answers.... all the answers and explanation have already been provided. Start finally talking inside JV, otherwise it is unclear whether anyone at all controls the party for you, or everyone is going solo.

@IvoButkevics We wrote it the day before yesterday, polished it yesterday. The Budget Committee just approved it, we'll see what the Saeima says tomorrow. Maybe they'll tweak something.

How should we move forward with the law on the development of Latvia's eastern territories? About this: https://t.co/BgLSVJwrmq

The security of the Saeima elections is ensured by Latvian State Forests, TET and LMT. LVM got hacked themselves, in the CSDD case TET as a service provider failed to protect the data. Now all that remains is to wait what LMT will surprise us with. Maybe now in that purchase affair they will be able to beat the price down substantially?

@AivarsOzo @AndrisKulbergs Mr. Ozoliņš, this question of yours has already been answered multiple times. In 2022, they also tried to attach 'god's signs' to us. Just now @AndrisKulbergs formed a government without LPV votes, although many - especially JV supporters - were shouting about it. What is your second question?

Consequences of the CSDD cyberattack. Given the massive leak of private and legal data and the potential scale of harm and consequences for the country's residents and national security, I call on the @CSDD_LV board and council to resign from their positions themselves! I suggest you think now not about yourselves, but about the reputation of the institution and the state. https://t.co/IBUOgPQcBg

Day No. 57 in the prime minister's chair (Thursday) – Sēlija training ground; anti-drone explosives; Recipe+; Olpha pharmaceutical plant. I have fallen behind on daily reports – here will be from Thursday. 🎖️ 🛰️ Sēlija training ground and armed forces procurement. I visited the Sēlija training ground together with Defence Minister R. Melnis. One of the conclusions after talking with the National Armed Forces and the minister – the old-style procurement procedures no longer work for the Armed Forces. We need to understand what military capability the customer wants to achieve – competition for equipment no longer works, but competition for capabilities does. We need to shift from purchasing to “subscription”. Technology is changing faster than ever, and our thinking must change along with it. There is also the question of the State Audit Office. The Armed Forces @Latvijas_armija fear that the State Audit Office could turn against them if the “wrong” drones were purchased. This needs to be resolved so decisions aren't stalled out of fear. ⚙️ The main challenge – how to integrate hundreds of new offensive and defensive technologies into a single command system. This is one of the most complex issues to solve around the world. NATO, together with manufacturers, is working on such a system that would allow greater reliance on equipment and less on personnel. After visiting the Sēlija training ground, I discussed with the National Armed Forces the situation where drones were purchased without warheads. It is absurd to think that the National Armed Forces will themselves fit the drones with explosives. That is not the Armed Forces' task. I changed clothes in the forest on the way :) and went straight from the training ground to the topping-out ceremony for Recipe Plus' new logistics centre. 💊 Recipe Plus logistics centre. I am always ready to be present when Latvian companies develop and invest private capital (+€20m). This is not an ordinary logistics centre. It will be a unique, automated solution. Availability of medicines is critically important even in crisis situations, and such a warehouse is essential for that. It is Latvian companies that will ensure our access to medicines in such situations – production, distribution, storage under any crisis conditions. Such a modern, automated logistics centre has not yet been built in our region. 🧪 Olpha plant. I also visited the Olpha plant. We have enormous potential in producing chemical raw materials for medicines. Currently EU, US and world drug manufacturers have become dependent on India's monopoly on pharmaceutical raw materials, and in many places in Europe this infrastructure has disappeared. In Latvia we have the resources and knowledge to expand both exports and production in this global niche. We need to work on universities training ever more specialists for this sector and strengthening our position in Europe and the world.

There must be a lesson and consequences. Irresponsibility and comfort in processes and meetings is the code of state administration. At all levels. That comfort must be eradicated. But not everywhere is like that, there are exceptions. But exceptions are now endemically leaving the state administration. Revolutionary rambling on social media, if supported, only facilitates that. It is a mirror problem.

The economy (welfare) works differently. Prices cannot be influenced in any way. Communists have always tried that and driven hundreds of millions of people into poverty. Into hopelessness. The only way out is to become richer. Reduce state regulations and allow people to live, fight, and succeed. As much as each one can. You consider people in Latvia to be victims and weaklings.

He wrote about the Russians. That is also relevant for our 'Eastern Latvian territories' — “Land matters when there are people living on it. When the neighbors around it are friendly. When, because of both, it brings the people living on it economic benefit and prosperity.”

@AivarsOzo @AndrisKulbergs Vienotība also said before the last elections in 2022 'clearly and unambiguously' that it would not go into government with ZZS. I don't remember if you have pointed this out to them? 🫤