🎙️ We are starting a new podcast #LatvijaLatviešiem together with @StankevicsA and @eliina_balode. No beating around the bush, with a dose of irony, and directly about what is currently happening in Latvia and the world. The first episode is in the air and you can watch it on Youtube: @Latvijalatviešiem. #LatvijaLatviešiem #Podkāsts https://t.co/rsUQQnvJly
In the 1991 barricades, I stood for a Latvian Latvia. Sadly, I must admit — this goal has not yet been achieved. However, on the barricade remembrance days, I will proudly pin on the barricade participant medal. #Barikādes1991 #latviskaLatvija #Atmoda https://t.co/ekzxbDssi9
The meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was extremely cordial. The Ukrainian side expressed readiness for closer military cooperation, including the establishment of joint ventures. I also proposed cooperation in the field of satellites and space technologies. I emphasized that Ukraine currently critically needs to strengthen its air defense — the West must be in solidarity. Latvia is ready to engage with security guarantees to strengthen the peace plan. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🕊️
From@ZelenskyyUaI held a meeting with the Speaker of the Latvian Saeima, @DaigaMierina. We discussed the negotiation process for achieving peace, the diplomatic situation, cooperation with partners within the Coalition of the Willing, Latvia’s continued participation in the PURL initiative, co-production under the SAFE instrument, and areas of partnership in advanced technologies where Ukraine can share its experience. I thank Latvia for its assistance in defense, finance, humanitarian matters, and our international initiatives. We are very grateful to your people and parliamentarians for all their support.
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Since the end of 2025, we have been unable to finish restricting distance learning, which would even provide for the creation of 42 (!) commissions to assess whether your child really needs distance learning! Not parents should decide about it, but some commissions 👎🏽❌ Why I write – we cannot finish – because we @LatvijaPirmaja do not want to allow these amendments to be approved, so at the last Saeima session of 2025 we broke the quorum (there was no required majority of votes for the session to continue at all). Then this issue was moved to the first session of this year, where these amendments were again not considered because the coalition lacked votes. Now the consideration of these amendments is included in the next session on January 22. Our party will do everything possible to ensure that these amendments are not adopted, but much also depends on the votes of ZZS!!! Will they take into account your – parents' – opinion and request to keep distance learning in the form it has been until now, or will they ignore it and vote as Jaunā Vienotība demands? We will see that next Thursday! Meanwhile, I will ask for maximum involvement in this matter – share this post, comment, write letters to MPs, hold a “gathering” on the morning of the session – the more active public involvement, the greater the chance that these amendments will not be adopted! #distancelearning
Today in the Saeima we discussed the issue of retirement and social benefits for barricade participants. The barricade participants themselves say – often the most important thing is not financial gain, but the feeling that the state has not forgotten them. It is precisely this feeling that must be restored.
I call on the Prime Minister @EvikaSilina to address the implementation of the National Security Concept and ensure the execution of the Saeima's decision. This is essential to increase public trust in both the Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers and to prevent the deepening of legal nihilism. https://t.co/IsnLXfD6nI
Together with my colleagues, I have arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇱🇻🕊️ We have no moral right to neglect Ukraine. It is precisely during the coldest months of the year that the people of Ukraine continue to endure severe attacks from the aggressor. Thousands of people have been left without electricity, water, and heating. It is unacceptable that in Europe, news about Ukraine is pushed into the background. Every visit by international leaders to Ukraine is a reassurance to Ukrainians that they will not be left alone and that everything will be done to achieve a just peace. @r_stefanchuk
@SlesersAinars And for all the last stolen elections, Russia is also to blame, right??? Well, if under the name Russia hides Jaunā Vienotība, then yes - it is!
From@SlesersAinarsThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by JV minister Braže, announces today that Russia will interfere in the upcoming Saeima elections! The purpose of this announcement is to prepare voters in advance for the fact that voters again have to vote for the progressive Vienotība, but if voters do not vote for JV, then they will support Russia! I want to remind again that it was precisely the Covid helicopter money and Russia's invasion of Ukraine that were used in JV's campaign so that voters would not talk or think about the mess JV had cooked, as a result of which Latvia has become one of the poorest countries in the European Union! A day before the previous Saeima elections, a campaign was organized AGAINST me, Ainārs Šlesers, who allegedly received 1.5 million euros from Putin every year, over many years! As a result of this campaign, LPV lost many voters who decided not to vote for LPV anymore! As a result, LPV lost at least 5 Saeima deputy mandates! How did this scandal end? I will answer! KNAB investigated this case for more than two years, and finally announced that Šlesers did not receive money from Putin! But unfortunately, KNAB cannot change the results of the Saeima elections! If LPV had 5 more Saeima deputies, then Latvia would have had a different government and a completely different policy would have been implemented! For example, the Istanbul Convention would not have been adopted and rapid economic growth would have been ensured in Latvia!
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The Latvian language in public media is not a technical or bureaucratic issue. It is a matter of Latvia's self-respect, state continuity, and responsibility. Link to LR1 recording: https://t.co/QsUCwPEnXG #krustpunktā #valstsvaloda #latviskaLatvija
Today we commemorate the January of 1991 in Lithuania, when the people of our neighboring country stood against the armed Soviet forces with great courage, defending the Lithuanian Television Tower and the independence of their country. 14 people lost their lives in this struggle — their sacrifice will forever remain in memory as a symbol of freedom, and this struggle will never be forgotten. 🕊️🇱🇹
We will start the first Saeima session of this year with the usual vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister and finish January with foreign policy debates that promise to be very heated 🔥 We cannot ignore all the 'interesting' statements by the Foreign Minister about both US President Trump and my party @LatvijaPirmaja as 'non-governmental' 🤦🏼♀️ So - about me too! ❌ What makes this even more interesting is that within the next few weeks the new US ambassador, Melissa Argyros, who supports Donald Trump and his policies, will visit us. I don't know whether she is informed about the statements of Latvia's Foreign Minister Braže 🇱🇻?🇺🇸 regarding the new ambassador's president, but someone will surely remind her. You can start imagining how the foreign policy debates will unfold! Meanwhile, in mid-January our faction's deputies are scheduled to meet with the President, where I will take the opportunity to ask the questions my voters are waiting for answers to. By the way, you can also ask questions that interest you in the comments here. I will also go to the State Audit Office to get answers about the numbers, audits, and responsibility for previously made decisions. After all, we need to know how the State Audit Office checks or 'controls' our ministries, state institutions, and municipalities where Latvia's taxpayers' money is used.
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From@maris_mezals⚠️Is Unity the lesser evil? Ask those who packed their bags and left Latvia. Yesterday one frame, who is known for his interview on the show Virziens, collapsed like an old fence in Unity's propaganda Krustpunktos. How can one fail so badly? And even worse - how can well-known directors, businessmen and politicians fall for such a cheap bluff? Do you really check nothing before cooperation or business projects? What's in the bear's belly - is the person trustworthy, has he already cheated someone before, what is his reputation in private life and business circles? Good that there are social networks and information spreads quickly, and everyone can listen to these “pearls”. For example, the claim that “Unity is the lesser evil for Latvia”. Really!? Then I want to know - what is the greatest evil for Latvia? Could it be the loan sharks, because of whom the victims of quick loans, due to huge interest and debts, were forced to leave Latvia?
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@maris_mezals Latvia would really be better without Unity
From@maris_mezalsIf Venezuela would be better without Maduro, then Latvia would certainly be better without “Unity”. More than 24 hours have passed, and from our so-called high end - SILENCE. There is no comment, no official position, no information for the public. I will remind you - Latvia is a member of both the UN and NATO. Those same from that high end regularly boast of our “international role”, “values” and “responsibility”. But at the moment when world politics picks up speed and there are X situations where one must speak and make decisions, - a pee-in-pants regime sets in. I am not talking here about us couch potatoes who sit on the sofa and watch events. I am talking about our high-end political elite - about those for whom at such moments it is the official's duty to take responsibility. And then the eternal logical question arises, which we all ask ourselves: 👉 how would they act in X hour? The answer is clear - NOTHING. They would wait for an email from von der Leyen. But the email would be in spam, everything is in spam for us!
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Latvia would really be better off without Unity https://t.co/ROP4BbiJbD
From@maris_mezalsIf Venezuela would be better off without Maduro, then Latvia would certainly be better off without 'Unity'. More than 24 hours have passed, and from our so-called high end - SILENCE. There is no comment, no official position, no information to the public. I will remind you - Latvia is a member of both the UN and NATO. Those same people from that high end regularly boast about our 'international role', 'values' and 'responsibility'. But at the moment when world politics picks up speed and there are X situations where decisions and statements are needed, the 'pants full of pee' regime sets in. I am not talking about us armchair observers who sit on the couch and watch events. I am talking about our high-end political elite - about those who, precisely at such moments, have the duty of an official to take responsibility. And then the eternal logical question arises, which we all ask ourselves: 👉 how would they act in X hour? The answer is clear - NOTHING. They would wait for an email from von der Leyen. But the email would be in spam, everything is in spam!
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From@Braze_Baiba⛔️ Aggressor state athletes are not welcome in Latvia. I have decided to include 14 citizens of the Russian Federation in the list of persons undesirable for the Republic of Latvia (persona non grata). ❌ The ban on entering 🇱🇻 is indefinite. The decision was made in accordance with Article 61, Part 2 of the Immigration Law.
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Is a new coalition being formed? The election of the public media overseer with the votes of 'Stability!' takes place at a time when national #security, the information space, and trust in the state are critical. #hybridwar
Although the National Alliance highly values Andris Saulītis as a professional in the field, the decisive issue was the presence of the Russian language in Latvian public media, which contradicts the National Security Concept. #stateLanguage #security @seplpadome @VL_TBLNNK https://t.co/EmSzMUWAMw
🇱🇻 This is not the first time that Latvian public media sports journalists have stood guard for the state language. Today, when we decided in the Saeima on granting citizenship to athlete Fedirs Kuļišs, it was the sports journalists who informed about the athlete's weak knowledge of the state language. https://t.co/TZr9RphRC7
From@akirsteiLSM hides that it is only in post-communist countries. We see the crisis in Lithuania. In Western Europe, public media receive income from subscriptions, advertisements, a fixed tax, but state subsidies are below 50%. There are large councils and independence. No Saulīši will save anything! https://t.co/BtTZdzQ2a7
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