Integration monitor
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.
Oct. 11, 2011
Political parties the Zatlers Reforms Party and the Unity decided to establish the governing coalition with the nationalists union All for Latvia!-For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM. Thus the winner of the elections, party the Concord Centre is left in the opposition. The new coalition will have 58 mandates. The nationalists union is planning to attach to the coalitions agreement its opinion about certain issues, for instance, that it disagrees with the automatic grant of Latvian citizenship to all children born after 1991. According to Latvijas Avize, the nationalists union also will not follow the condition set in the agreement not to take part in the 16 March events (unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires). Diena, Latvijas Avize, Vesti Segodnya