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Ten different parties have won at least one parish in the 2022 Saeima election, with JV and ZZS winning the vast majority of parishes and AS, NA, and S! winning more than 10 parishes.
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- Saeima has approved the bill legalizing gender-neutral partnerships (civil unions) in the final reading with 53 votes in favour and 43 votes against.
- Saeima has recognized Russia as a terrorist-supporting state with 67 MPs voting in favor.
- The fourth electoral list is here! P has submitted their electoral list for the 14th Saeima election.
- Saeima has approved the bill legalizing gender neutral partnerships (civil unions) in the first reading with 53 votes in favour and 40 votes against. The second (final) reading is set for 9 November.
- Saeima has unanimously approved the declaration supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and called on the EU to adopt strongest sanctions possible on both Russian and Belarusian regimes.
- Marija Golubeva (AP!), who is currently a member of the Saeima Presidium and the leader of the AP! parliamentary group, will become the new Minister of the Interior. She will be the first openly LGBT woman in the Cabinet of Ministers.
- The first electoral list is here! AP! has submitted their electoral list for the 14th Saeima election.
- 🚨EDGARS RINKĒVIČS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF LATVIA Results of the third round of voting: Candidate - votes in favour - votes against Rinkēvičs - 52 - 35 Pīlēns - 25 - 62 Edgars Rinkēvičs has received 52 votes and will become the next President of Latvia on July 8.
- Kariņš' cabinet has become the longest-serving government in the history of democratic Latvia, surpassing their predecessors - Kučinskis' cabinet.
- Saeima has unanimously passed a motion expressing solidarity with Ukraine and recognizing Russian actions as genocide.
- Saeima has approved the bill ratifying the Istanbul Convention in the second (final) reading with 51 votes in favor and 2 votes against.
- Saeima has sent the bill ratifying the Istanbul Convention to the Legal Affairs Committee with 50 votes in favor and 40 votes against.
- Evika Siliņa (JV) has officially announced the composition of her cabinet after a meeting with the President Edgars Rinkēvičs. The new cabinet is set to be approved this Friday, in an extraordinary sitting of the Saeima.
