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.
May 27, 2013
- Raivis Dzintars asks the security bodies to check whether the activities of the Congress of non-citizens are an attempt of coup d'etat
Leader of the nationalists’ union All for Latvia!-FF/LNIM Raivis Dzintars asks the Security Police and the Constitution’s Protection Bureau to check whether the alternative elections to the Parliament of Unrepresented organised by the Congress of Non-Citizens is the attempt to overthrow the state government (coup d'etat). Mr. Dzintars believes that the fact that the alternative elections are to be held at the same time with municipal elections on 1 June testifies about its aim to establish structures opposed to the official state authorities. Thus, Raivis Dzintars asks to ban the activities of the Congress as it is anti-state organisation. Representatives of the Congress, in their turn, stress that the elections to the Parliament of Unrepresented are the first truly general elections in Latvia as not only citizens can take part but also non-citizens and all registered residents. Thus, this is a step towards the establishment of political nation and consolidation of the society based on democratic values and freedom. Vesti Segodnya reminds that Mr. Dzintars has just recently congratulated his comrades on the occasion of the anniversary of one real coup d'etat, organised by Karlis Ulmanis on 15 May 1934. Raivis Dzintars' organisation "All for Latvia!" celebrates this coup d'etat since 2005, when it was officially a "youth NGO". Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize