And the winner is –
RIGA – Among three people said to be in the running to become the next prime minister, a man who had been officially charged with forming the next government was a back-up candidate.
At the end of last week, Latvian president has asked the outgoing interior minister Ivars Godmanis, a former prime minister, minister of finance, and a DJ at a national radio station, to form the five-party coalition. And as it looks right now, majority of the same people will remain in the new government, which really doesn’t address the issue of public trust, which toppled the government of Aigars Kalvitis.
And the five-party center-right coalition is a bad idea because it leaves no reasonable opposition in the parliament. The generally pro-Russian Harmony Centre is still not considered a serious opposition.
In the last government, however, New Era party served the role of an opposition, but it really failed at challenging the outgoing government on issues and came across as a party that only seeks to gain power.
A democracy without opposition might as well be a benevolent dictatorship. And it is my hope that the New Era will remain outside the current government to keep the democratic balance in the parliament.
The party talks have been on going since Monday. The President offered no deadline by which the government must be formed.
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