Tuesday, October 27, 2026

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“Latvenergo” and LVM cannot be “protected” in the long term with a referendum

With the Ministry of Finance coming forward with the idea to abolish the legal prohibition on privatizing “Latvenergo” and “Latvijas Valsts meži”, the issue of organizing a referendum to prevent the privatization of these companies is again being raised. In the heat of debate, some even mistakenly recall that this question was once decided by a popular vote. However, claims that the people have already prohibited the privatization of “Latvenergo” and that therefore nothing like this is any longer […]

Schrödinger’s registry; the Prosecutor’s Office claims that the system by which the elections are ensured does not exist

At the end of 2020, the company “SOAAR” developed the Electronic Online Voter Register (ETVR system), which was used to conduct the 2021 municipal elections and the 2022 Saeima elections. The Prosecutor’s Office has thrown the evidence into the trash and claims that the ETVR does not exist. The 14th Saeima elections had concluded, the votes had been counted, and the new Saeima convened for its first session on the first of November 2022. Exactly one week later, with the Internal Security […]

State travel enthusiasm: ministries and the prime minister have spent more than a million euros on business trips in the first quarter of this year

Among the ministers, the prime minister has traveled the most, while the farthest trips have been made by officials from the Ministry of Finance, the Minister of Agriculture, and an expert from the Ministry of Welfare. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence together have spent even slightly more than all the other ministries combined. How can it be that the Ministry of Climate and Energy (KEM) is ranked so high, when I haven’t been anywhere at all!? Probably about […]