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• MP Aleksandrs Sakovskis: interethnic relations are set to deteriorate, because the relevant key positions are occupied by the radical nationalists who determine the agenda

 

MP and the member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Aleksandrs Sakovskis stated that the interethnic relations in Latvia are set to deteriorate, because all the key positions relevant to the integration of society are occupied by the representatives of the radical nationalists union "All for Latvia! - For Fatherland and Freedom / Latvian National Independence Movement" (AL!FF/LNIM): Inara Murniece, one of the harshest supporters of the ban on the Soviet symbols is a chairperson of the Saeima's Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee, while the Ministry of Justice (lead by Janis Bordans) provides legal expertise for the draft laws, and the Ministry of Culture, which is in charge of society integration policies, is lead by Zaneta Jaunzeme-Grende. MP Raivis Dzintars, the co-chairperson of AL!FF/LNIM who was involved in the incident at the Freedom Monument on 16 March 2013 (the unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires), is in charge of patriotic education. There are no prospects for integration improvements as long as AL!FF/LNIM ideologues de-facto determine the agenda. Vesti Segodnya