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• About 2,000 supporters of the Concord Centre hold protest action; the majority of the Parliament did not support Valdis Zatlers as the Speaker
• Vladimirs Lindermans and Jevgenijs Osipovs are planning to establish a new political party aimed at Russian speaking residents

Yesterday, on the first day of the new Saeima’s session, about 2,000 supporters of the Concord Centre took part in the protest action near the Parliament’s building protesting against ethnic discrimination in establishing governing coalition. In the meantime, the President of Latvia Andris Berzins in his speech to the Saeima highlighted that a governing coalition by the Unity, the Zatler’s Reforms Party (ZRP) and the nationalists union is not stabile enough. A test to coalition vitality came later during the session, when the majority of the Saeima did not support nomination of the leader of the ZRP, ex-President Valdis Zatlers to the post of the Saeima’s Speaker. Prior to the voting, the coalition made an agreement on electing Valdis Zatlers to the post of the Saeima’s Speaker.

Yesterday, on the first day of the new Saeimas session, about 2,000 supporters of the Concord Centre took part in the protest action near the Parliaments building protesting against ethnic discrimination in establishing governing coalition. In the meantime, the President of Latvia Andris Berzins in his speech to the Saeima highlighted that a governing coalition by the Unity, the Zatlers Reforms Party (ZRP) and the nationalists union is not stabile enough. A test to coalition vitality came later during the session, when the majority of the Saeima did not support nomination of the leader of the ZRP, ex-President Valdis Zatlers to the post of the Saeimas Speaker. Prior to the voting, the coalition made an agreement on electing Valdis Zatlers to the post of the Saeimas Speaker. Telegraf, Diena, Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga

Initiators of the collection of signatures in support of granting Russian language status of official Vladimirs Lindermans and Jevgenijs Osipovs are planning to establish a new political party which would attract Russian speaking voters. Mr Lindermans believes that there is a need for more radical political force, because the Concord Centre proved that despite its soft position, interests of Russian speaking voters are not taken into account anyway.

Initiators of the collection of signatures in support of granting Russian language status of official Vladimirs Lindermans and Jevgenijs Osipovs are planning to establish a new political party which would attract Russian speaking voters. Mr Lindermans believes that there is a need for more radical political force, because the Concord Centre proved that despite its soft position, interests of Russian speaking voters are not taken into account anyway. Vesti Segodnya