Minister of Education and Science Ilze Indriksone (National Alliance) calls for attention to the fact that “we have no foreign children”. Kristīne Kravcova's conversation about child safety, in which also Saeima deputy Ilze Stobova (LPV) and journalist Mārtiņš Otto participated: https://t.co/jkhU6284XA https://t.co/xdKl8YXgaQ
From@Lato_LapsaHonestly, I am surprised at how in less than three months @AndrisKulbergs turned into a cross between Evika Siliņa and Edmunds Jurēvics.
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@EriksZarahovics I think so. Having some formal papers is more important than the mood of the people.
From@EriksZarahovicsIs the dream about Kulberg over?#tikaijautāju https://t.co/zrNY3D3NG6
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From@austsaule“Austošā Saule Latvijai” is the only party that will not control or increase the number of immigrants, but will actually reduce it. @RaivisZeltits and Aiva Zālīte on the main mechanisms of the anti-immigration plan. Uncomfortable for the government - needed for Latvia! List No. 12 https://t.co/dQ6olyJHyd
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From@ArtursButans❗️First, the prime minister must be able to distinguish a draft law from an informative report. Secondly, on the TAP portal everyone can see that the immigration restriction plan has been under coordination since 24 July. I call on @AndrisKulbergs, instead of emotional reproaches, to no longer postpone immigration restrictions. https://t.co/hLpkgEfwB5
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Dispute over immigration restrictions: National Alliance will demand explanations from Kulbergs
From@Krisjanis_K@2_teikumi @thejaniz @EdvardsRatnieks @jautaa_veel @poznaks @janisdombrava @Lato_Lapsa Well, in general, above each initiative on the TAP portal it is written: 'If you submit your opinion after the specified deadline, the responsible ministry is entitled to proceed with the project without processing the objections and proposals of this opinion!' https://t.co/Vyuft406Wm
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From@Brivibas36Prime Minister @AndrisKulbergs emphasizes that the government's political goal on migration has not changed. Latvia needs stricter migration control, limiting unjustified entry and stay of third-country nationals in Latvia. https://t.co/bythmg2a79
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Began my visit to Dublin🇮🇪 by meeting the Irish Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, chaired by TD @JohnLahart. We discussed further sanctions against Russia’s war economy, support for Ukraine, EU economic security, and priorities of @Ireland2026eu.
NA will demand explanations from Kulbergs regarding objections to the immigration restriction action plan.
From@ArlietasDirector of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Edīte Medne, about the situation regarding Latvian nationals in Nepal on September 1. https://t.co/UCgUjBxQnE
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@AndrisKulbergs I have not been present in these conversations between you and Dombrava, so I don't know the nuances, but looking from the outside, there are no clear reasons why this needs to be publicly argued about.
From@AndrisKulbergs@kr_klavins Ask this question to NA and Dombrava. If a colleague has decided to go into destructive action rather than resolve the issue in the very clearly given opportunity to meet this Friday and iron out the points not agreed with the ministers, then he deserves a public 'fuj'.
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From@2_teikumi@thejaniz @EdvardsRatnieks @Krisjanis_K @jautaa_veel @poznaks @janisdombrava @Lato_Lapsa Nobody, basically, and there is no such requirement that a decision cannot be made until all ministries agree with the content. Because as long as political disagreements remain, one can continue writing new ones, or maintain motivated objections that are not taken into account.🤷♂️
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@kr_klavins Ask this question to NA and Dombrava. If a colleague has decided to go into destructive action rather than resolve the issue in the very clearly given opportunity to meet this Friday and iron out the points not agreed with the ministers, then he deserves a public 'fuj'.
From@kr_klavins@AndrisKulbergs Andris, why do you need this? Against the closest political partner, with whom you worked together for years in opposition, fighting against the 'Progressives' and 'New Unity'.
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@LV_visiem If a colleague has decided to go into destructive action instead of resolving the issue in the very clearly given opportunity to meet this Friday and finish off the points not agreed with the ministers, then he deserves to receive a public 'fuj'.
From@LV_visiem@AndrisKulbergs Mr. Kulbergs - you are sinking into a political swamp. Communication must be respectful - this is already Siliņa's deplorable style - shouting and swearing publicly at colleagues.
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“Cheap, childish shouting of my coalition partners for the sake of shouting”… Prime Minister. Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia. https://t.co/xZ7Ga3EPA3
From@AndrisKulbergsTo all shouters before shouting from headlines about migration, I suggest you read! The government's and my position has never changed regarding stopping uncontrolled migration. Illegal and "legally" migrants with fabricated papers have no place in Latvia. I am for deeds and action, not cheap, childish @VL_TBLNNK shouting for the sake of shouting. I expect from @janisdombrava a QUALITATIVELY prepared migration control document. I already yesterday scheduled a political ministers' meeting for Friday 12:00 to help sort it out with ministers. If Dombrava is not ready to simply prepare a document for consideration by the Council of Ministers, then he can only blame his own inability to be a good minister.
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@AndrisKulbergs Andris, why do you need this? Against the closest political partner, with whom you worked together for years in opposition, fighting against the 'Progressives' and 'New Unity'.
From@AndrisKulbergsTo all shouters before shouting from headlines about migration, I suggest you read! The government's and my position has never changed regarding stopping uncontrolled migration. Illegal and "legally" migrants with fabricated papers have no place in Latvia. I am for deeds and action, not cheap, childish @VL_TBLNNK shouting for the sake of shouting. I expect from @janisdombrava a QUALITATIVELY prepared migration control document. I already yesterday scheduled a political ministers' meeting for Friday 12:00 to help sort it out with ministers. If Dombrava is not ready to simply prepare a document for consideration by the Council of Ministers, then he can only blame his own inability to be a good minister.
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The Prime Minister complains that approvals are missing. Whose duty is it, if not the Prime Minister's, to ensure that the government's work moves forward? The Prime Minister is not a clerk whose job is to note that a paper is missing from some file. The Prime Minister leads the government, convenes ministers, resolves disagreements and achieves decisions. The government declaration states in black and white: restrict the issuing of long-term visas and residence permits, set the permissible number of third-country nationals and close schemes for legalising economic immigrants. Mr Prime Minister, you did not stop the 'theatre'. You yourself stalled the implementation of your own government declaration. When Interior Minister @janisdombrava has submitted concrete proposals, the Prime Minister does not organise their review and make a decision, but publicly announces that approvals are missing, and calls the work done a 'theatrical fight' and 'dull voter fishing'. Open tunnels on the border. Raids are taking place. Immigration control is being stepped up. Quotas for third-country nationals are being prepared, stricter requirements for foreign students and universities, control over employment intermediaries and liability for residence rule violations. Where exactly is the theatre here? When the Prime Minister and the Interior Minister toured the border and stood in front of cameras, that was obviously statesmanship. When uncomfortable decisions have to be made and powerful economic interests opposed, it suddenly becomes 'hysteria'. That's where the story about procedure ends. In one hand @AndrisKulbergs holds the government declaration promising to restrict the issuing of long-term visas and residence permits. In the other hand he holds proposals to keep investor temporary residence permits, the so-called 'golden visas'. The immigration restriction plan still needs at least 14 more approvals. The 'golden visa' idea apparently only needs an investment fund brochure and promises of rich sheikhs. Latvia does not need an immigration policy in which security solutions can be postponed while residence permits can again be turned into a commodity. Latvia does not need a system in which the interests of universities, labour intermediaries and various investment schemes matter more than the state's ability to control who enters Latvia, why they stay here and what they do here. If the Prime Minister objects to specific points of the plan, he should simply say so. If corrections are needed, they should be made. If ministries cannot agree, the Prime Minister should sit them at one table and reach a decision. That is exactly what the Prime Minister is paid for. Not for videos in which he publicly scolds his government's ministers and explains to the public why the government cannot do its own job. Restricting immigration is not theatre. The theatre begins when the Prime Minister promises one thing, brakes another and pushes a third.
From@AndrisKulbergsDAY No. 68 in the prime minister's chair — Dombrava's imitated MIGRANT struggle @VL_TBLNNK hysteria about immigration sometimes looks like a spoiled kindergartener. Here is everything you need to know about @janisdombrava's 'theater battle' with immigration. 🎭 Apparently Dombrava is not interested in a real result in restricting migration, but in loud and pointless shouting. It is a pity that their own voters are fooled in this way. Interior Minister Dombrava apparently still has not understood what it means to be a minister and how work happens in the Cabinet of Ministers. I would suggest his more experienced NA colleagues — @KasparsGerhards, @IIndriksone or Mūrniece — explain what it means to prepare and submit an informative report (IZ) to the government. ❓ How do Dombrava and NA even imagine pushing a FULLY UNSYNCHRONIZED issue to a government meeting? Just because they felt like it? 📸 The screenshot from the MK TAP portal shows everything as clear as day: ➡️ Dombrava's informative report was submitted on Monday, 31 August, at 12:59 — only about 1.5 hours before the coalition meeting; ➡️ the document is completely unsynchronized with 14 institutions — not with the Ministry of Justice, Finance, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Welfare, Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Health, the State Chancellery, @darbadeveji, @LTRK_uznemeji, etc. Simply coming in, throwing a document into the government and then announcing that 'everyone is against fighting immigration' is dull, cheap and populist voter fishing with no basis. 🤝 At the coalition meeting we all agreed that the document must be coordinated, and this Friday a special political meeting is being organized to agree on its content point by point. Apparently even that seems superfluous to Dombrava, if noise is more important than results. ⚠️ And the objections are not formal — they are very substantial. For example, Dombrava suddenly imagined suing TWO European Commission commissioners and proposing amendments to an EU directive. The Foreign Ministry has significant objections to that. The interior minister cannot simply bypass all Cabinet working procedures, throw a document unsynchronized with anyone into the government and demand an immediate decision. Many ministers had not even had time to familiarize themselves with the document today. 📌 Moreover, there is no talk of some 'stuck coordination'. There has not even been a normal coordination cycle! The document must first be prepared properly, go through coordination and be brought to a government decision. Only then can one say that someone is blocking it. Dombrava simply did not do his homework. The facts are simple: 1️⃣ A project can be submitted to the government agenda if it is submitted by Wednesday evening. This project was already submitted on Monday, 31 August, at 12:59, shortly before the coalition meeting. 2️⃣ After clarifying the project, it was not sent to ministries for a repeated opinion. 3️⃣ The argument about delay does not hold up — the report has had almost three months since the beginning of June to be prepared. 🎯 If we really want to restrict illegal migration, we need results, prepared decisions and professional work, not loud slogans and political theater.
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To all shouters before shouting from headlines about migration, I suggest you read! The government's and my position has never changed regarding stopping uncontrolled migration. Illegal and "legally" migrants with fabricated papers have no place in Latvia. I am for deeds and action, not cheap, childish @VL_TBLNNK shouting for the sake of shouting. I expect from @janisdombrava a QUALITATIVELY prepared migration control document. I already yesterday scheduled a political ministers' meeting for Friday 12:00 to help sort it out with ministers. If Dombrava is not ready to simply prepare a document for consideration by the Council of Ministers, then he can only blame his own inability to be a good minister.
From@Brivibas36Prime Minister @AndrisKulbergs emphasizes that the government's political goal on migration has not changed. Latvia needs stricter migration control, limiting unjustified entry and stay of third-country nationals in Latvia. https://t.co/bythmg2a79
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@Afanasijs Oh you poor thing - receiving salaries for a whole year and being without phones and unable to accomplish any of the functions 🤡
From@AfanasijsSo - the war between NA and Kulbergs has begun. Now NA blames things he's not even close to being involved in. Remind me, who created the incompetent Crisis Management Center, without giving it an office or phones? The cause of the storm's aftermath is all previous governments, including NA! https://t.co/JkIGrtuVVH
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