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• Deputy believes tax benefits for citizens could solve problem of non-citizenship
• Non-citizens hold an action remembering broken promises by the Popular Front in 1991

A deputy of the Riga City Council Janis Martins Skuja (Democratic Patriots) believes that mass-scale non-citizenship in Latvia could be solved by granting citizens tax benefits. Mr Skuja believes option would help non-citizens to choose to become citizens.  Vesti Segodnya

Yesterday, the Congress of Non-citizens laid flowers with a violet ribbon at the Monument of Freedom in Riga as an action remembering promises of the Popular Front to grant all Latvian residents citizenship made in 1991 at the barricades for Latvia’s independence. However, later, when Latvia became independent, these promises were not fulfilled splitting the society into citizens and non-citizens. Vesti Segodnya