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Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

July 27, 2011

  • Saeima forwarded to the Legal Committee draft amendments allowing at least 10,000 of Latvian residents, including non-citizens, to submit their proposals for legal acts for the Saeimas approval
  • Five political organisations from Latvia are named in the list of truly nationalists parties mentioned in the manifest written by a Norwegian right-wing extremist Andres Behring Breivik
The Saeima forwarded to the Legal Committee draft amendments to the Saeima’s Rules of Procedure stipulating that at least 10,000 Latvian citizens and permanent residents may submit a collective initiative concerning legal acts to the Saeima.

The Saeima forwarded to the Legal Committee draft amendments to the Saeimas Rules of Procedure stipulating that at least 10,000 Latvian citizens and permanent residents may submit a collective initiative concerning legal acts to the Saeima. Telegraf notes that thus Latvian non-citizens also will be able to impact legislative process. According to the draft amendments, the Saeima will have to review such collective proposal at its session and if it is approved by the majority of MPs the draft proposal should be forwarded to the parliamentary Committees for discussion and revision. After one month, the revised draft proposal should be reviewed in the Saeima and approved in three readings. Telegraf

According to the newspapers, five political organisations from Latvia are named in the list of truly nationalists’ parties mentioned in the manifest written by a Norwegian right-wing extremist Andres Behring Breivik, perpetrator of shootings and terror act in Norway on 22 July. The nationalists’ union All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM, right-wing organisations the National Power Union, the Club 415, the Latvian National Front and the Latvian National Democratic Party or presently called the Osipovs’ Party are mentioned in Breivik’s manifest published on the Internet. According the acting Minister of Interior Aigars Stokenbergs, all the organisations are well known to the Security Police and those are being watched.

According to the newspapers, five political organisations from Latvia are named in the list of truly nationalists parties mentioned in the manifest written by a Norwegian right-wing extremist Andres Behring Breivik, perpetrator of shootings and terror act in Norway on 22 July. The nationalists union All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM, right-wing organisations the National Power Union, the Club 415, the Latvian National Front and the Latvian National Democratic Party or presently called the Osipovs Party are mentioned in Breiviks manifest published on the Internet. According the acting Minister of Interior Aigars Stokenbergs, all the organisations are well known to the Security Police and those are being watched. Diena, Latvijas

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