Latvian Political Monitor

Krišs Krišjānis Millers (@MillersKriss) explains with an example why delays in the healthcare system must be ended https://t.co/RC6AofT1nK

An adequate compensation system must be created for various restrictions on economic activity. It should not be that various nature and environmental protection measures, often hasty, are loaded only on the shoulders of land owners and rural entrepreneurs https://t.co/uZkLW8fbBj https://t.co/O0DgoGAxpB

Today, the development law for Latvia's eastern territory has been moved to the first reading in the Saeima committee. It must not forget Jēkabpils municipality! Security risks, the border area, demographics, and economic challenges here are the same as in Latgale or eastern Vidzeme. The law needs clear criteria and a real plan!

Our goal is not simply to reduce taxes, but our goal is to ensure that people actually feel it in their everyday purchases. That is why we are carefully following to ensure that the reduced VAT is honestly reflected in store prices. This is a benefit for both Latvian residents and our farmers and food producers.

I am for a green Latvia, but currently nature plans are made in offices, not in real life: wolves, bears, cormorants. Nature protection is financed precisely by those farmers and foresters whose work these decisions now restrict. A reasonable balance between nature and people is needed! @ZZS_ https://t.co/WaaAYzGuai

4/4 I especially like this: support for the development of the forest sector strategic document. One application. One winner. 20,000 EUR. Work that the ministry itself should seemingly do. These are just a few examples. I will wait for the Prime Minister's promised 'full analysis'. https://t.co/r61y3qFUjb

3/ Funding for the production of the annual forestry industry award - one application, one winner (and for several years in a row). https://t.co/p3iai0Mw1P

2/ One application for organizing the competition for the tidiest forest - one winner in both 2024 and 2025. The organization's legal address is actually the same as the Ministry of Agriculture's. https://t.co/t9ysPjh9Hg

I will be interested to see the 'full analysis of state funding to NGOs' - especially regarding the funding that the Ministry of Agriculture allocates to various organizations every year to accomplish the same tasks. Some examples from the Forest Development Fund: -> 1/ https://t.co/eeUETcJYjj

Over the decades I have had to lead all sorts of group discussions, including those where it is discussed how greedy we are in forestry. Meanwhile, statistics show forest quality and area are growing. Where are such narratives produced? @GirtsRungainis is extremely on point in his opinion 👍 https://t.co/Sa3gf42oWE

📣@NaurisPuntulis: We have had a state of emergency since 1940! Amendments are moving forward in the Saeima that will promote the use of Latvian in media. The committee also supported the idea based on the @Satv_tiesa ruling to stop the creation of Russian-language content in public media. https://t.co/7qTbfP5Px6

Although for the sake of the general modern simplification, “We Change the Rules” is classified as a conservative right-wing nationalist political movement, in reality this is a purely modernist project. And the majority has not understood that. Because the core idea is already recklessly ambitious — to truly radically try to replace the old model of state administration with a completely new one never seen before in this country. MMN in Latvian politics is the same as the appearance of rock ’n’ roll in 1960 or the crummy computer boxes in the mid-1990s. Revolutionaries always start as marginals. From time to time I am asked whether MMN is for me some kind of performance art experiment. In the sense they mean it, of course not. But in a way there is that absolutely creative openness — not to be afraid of a bold experiment and to air out a room full of fumes. It won’t get any worse, and this state can only be pulled out of this shit with an extraordinary set of technologies. MMN.

Some nations inspire through their history. Some inspire through what they do today. France continues to do both. 🇫🇷 Thank you for standing with Latvia, strengthening NATO, and helping keep Europe secure. And good luck at the World Cup! ⚽️ Bonne fête nationale. Vive la France! 🇱🇻🤝🇫🇷

@Artillerry @aarrvviiss I expressed myself imprecisely. It would be a fixed 10% tax. No VAT.