In Latvia, parliament on Wednesday elected former foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics as the new president. The 49-year-old won on the third ballot after none of the original three candidates secured an absolute majority of 100 MPs.
Rinkevics ultimately received 52 of the 87 votes cast. In July, he will hold the highest state office in the Baltic Sea state, which borders Russia and Belarus and has a population of 1.9 million. The top diplomat then replaces Egils Levits (67), who waives a second term.
Consistent support for Ukraine
Under Levits and his successor Rinkevics as foreign minister, Latvia has consistently supported Ukraine in Russia’s war of aggression and, like its Baltic neighbors Lithuania and Estonia and Poland, has probably adopted the most anti-Russian stance within the EU and NATO.
Source: Krone
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