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• Party the Unity tries to justify statement by its candidate to the post of the Mayor of Riga Sarmite Elerte about usage of Russian language at the city council

The political party Unity distributed clarifications regarding recent statement of its candidate to the post of the Mayor of Riga Sarmite Elerte about usage of Russian language at the city council. The Unity stated that Mrs Elerte’s statement made at a TV show “Uncensored” that the city council should accept complaints written also in Russian language got wrongly interpreted. According to the Unity, Mrs Elerte wanted to say that the state language in Latvia is Latvian and the residents should appeal to the city council in Latvian language. But in those cases, when a person who speaks only some foreign language turns to the council, the city council should find a way how to help such persons, for instance, to write a complaint in Latvian from the words of a person. Vesti Segodnya