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2002 will be a successful year for the party and its supporters," Janis Jurkans, the head of Saeima faction of For Human Rights In A United Latvia, says in an interview in VS. He says that the party could get about 300,000 votes at the eighth Saeima elections.

2002 will be a successful year for the party and its supporters," Janis Jurkans, the head of Saeima faction of For Human Rights In A United Latvia, says in an interview in VS. He says that the party could get about 300,000 votes at the eighth Saeima elections. Vesti Segodnya

Despite considerable pressure from the leaders of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party (LSDSP), LSDSP Saeima faction deputy Peteris Salkazanovs will quit the faction and join a new Saeima faction that is also to include four current members of the LSDSP faction. Salkazanovs confirmed to LETA once more that he, the current LSDSP faction's chairman Egils Baldzens, deputies Imants Burvis, Janis Leja and Risards Labanovskis would leave the LSDSP faction and form a new one.

Despite considerable pressure from the leaders of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party (LSDSP), LSDSP Saeima faction deputy Peteris Salkazanovs will quit the faction and join a new Saeima faction that is also to include four current members of the LSDSP faction. Salkazanovs confirmed to LETA once more that he, the current LSDSP faction's chairman Egils Baldzens, deputies Imants Burvis, Janis Leja and Risards Labanovskis would leave the LSDSP faction and form a new one. LETA, Neatkariga, Diena, Chas, Panorama Latvii,

Today the government commission will consider amendments to the Criminal Code to abolish the capital punishment in Latvia. This penalty has not been applied for several years but is still existing in the Code.

Neatkariga