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• Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis will not prohibit participation of ministers in 16 March events

The new Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis (the Union of Greens and Farmers) will not prohibit participation of ministers in the procession of former Latvian legionnaires and their supporters on 16 March events in Riga – unofficial commemoration day of Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires, if they officially take a day-off. As reported, the ex-Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma prohibited the ministers’ participation in the 16 March events in the centre of Riga during the past two years. According to Latvijas Avize, none of the ministers is planning to take part in the events this year. However, two members of the National Union – the Parliamentary Secretaries of the Minister of Culture Einars Cilinskis and the Ministry of Justice Janis Iesalnieks stated that they will take part in the procession in the centre of Riga on 16 March.  Mr Cilinskis was dismissed from the post of the Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development due to the decision to take part in the procession in 2014. Delfi.lv