Latvian Political Monitor

@Krisjanis_K @Braze_Baiba @VeikoSpolitis @EdmundsJurevics @EvikaSilina https://t.co/foWfnlAOJ7 https://t.co/1vO7CNf5fF

Interesting that the biggest bearer of change @AlvisHermanis1 is able to declaim change on Facebook, but not defend ideas in the prime minister debates. Migration, you see, bothers him... Rostovskis and Bite are supposedly the main culprits in migration... but the 'famous' director has no facts, no data, no evidence, only fake claims. I defended and explained AS plans and ideas, but the director got scared...

FACTOMATE ⟩ Difference in income between Latvia and Estonia: checking the math of Ainārs Šlesers

FACTOM ⟩ Is Estonia richer by 10 billion, as Šlesers claims?

Once friends, now 'traitors'. How parties are again fighting for the votes of Russian-speaking voters.

Regarding the governance of state-owned companies... it must be fundamentally changed in the next government. All state-owned companies must be placed under the Latvian Development Fund, where there would be professional management and the earned money would be reinvested and earn, rather than be consumed in maintaining the state apparatus. Investments would earn with interest. The shares of this LV Development Fund would be listed on the stock exchange and would obtain the necessary capital for energy projects, regional construction, strengthening the border, infrastructure projects such as roads and railways, etc.

It's really hard to remember to exercise. Health suffers. Many people say so. Young people say it, seniors say it. Lonely mothers-in-law say it too. Well, yes, so we need a support programme to promote exercise. Everyone who has a hard time with this and wants to be supported must be supported! But what do we do with those who lean on it crazily and start exercising until exhaustion? They'll get a support programme to treat addiction or prevent injuries. But what about those who are not at all engaged by that exercise — they will obviously be sicker than the active ones, right? Yes, they will need a support programme that compensates for their non-participation in the original support programme. We don't need to go into details here — the principle is simple. If a support programme does not provide the required level of support, then the next level of support must be organised. A support programme. Since this involves moving very large amounts of money around, people's participation in programmes must be very precisely recorded and monitored. And those who, from being monitored or from fear of being monitored, develop stress or even burnout — they also need a support programme. With all that follows. Of course, no support programme can be introduced unless everything has been properly researched beforehand. 300 thousand is a number with which to start talks. About a possible date for the first meeting of the first working group. Once all the issues with the support programme machinery have been smoothed out, it is important not to rush to end the support programme, because then the whole construction would collapse. The most successful way to end a support programme is to introduce a support programme for those who were prematurely disconnected from the previous programme. That will reduce the shock. … One of the basic ideas of “We Change the Rules” is that socialism is rapidly leading Latvia to its end. To the end. To the complete switch of all support programmes from local administration to some more distant one. But before that, of course, with a system crash. With the rotten birch falling down and disintegrating. Soon followed by the replacement of democratic methods of influence with a method of legitimising power more convenient for the distant administration. Although what legitimacy is needed to rule over those waiting for support programmes. Ladies and gentlemen listening to those idiotic pre-election debates! A “support programme” is not politics. A “support programme” is socialism, looting of the state, poverty and the road to totalitarianism. If you have the idea “support programme” on your tongue, join the Progressives. As Čakste already said, Latvia would be enough with three parties. One would be the Progressives, the other would be MMN, and the third for all do-gooders, deniers of ideology and flexible rating-measurers. The choice is simple. Left, right, or grass in the wind. Three variants. In each box only one party makes sense. No need to split further, because the main question is the basic principle of influence. A support programme or — freedom and responsibility. We are for freedom and responsibility.

In the Kurzeme pre-election debates on LTV, the finance minister admitted that the party is over. Unfortunately, that is the reality - the budget numbers don't add up, the fiscal space is going deep into the red. No one talks about it loudly. The public does not understand this situation! But the main solution directions to choose from will be 2: 1) raise taxes, first of all VAT from 21% to some 23% (this already amid rising prices for fuel, heating and possibly electricity) 2️⃣) reduce public sector spending. #MēsMaināmNoteikumus (list No. 2️⃣ offers to carry out a general cleanup of public administration to protect citizens from a new tax hike. If you don't deal with politicians, politicians will deal with you!

"There are political forces with whom we do not talk much. But regarding neither the Progressives nor the others we leave the field. Our decision is not to talk about it before the elections," said Māris Kučinskis (AS) during the #IzvēliesLatvijasNākotni pre-election debates in Liepāja.

I don't understand why the word scenario is being invoked?! https://t.co/FDnjbhtkHk

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Next, please! – at 12 o'clock. In the studio Indriksone, Dombrava and Butāns from the National Alliance

Germany, at our request, will intensively guard our airspace during the elections on October 1/2/3. Thanks to @_FriedrichMerz for support Our allies are with Latvia. This is a concrete demonstration of NATO solidarity and our common commitment to protect Latvia's airspace and people's safety. Thank you Germany for responsiveness and close cooperation!