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• The Concord Centre convincingly won in Riga – more than 58% of voters supported it.

Newspapers report about the results of the local elections in Latvia held on 1 June. In Riga, the Concord Centre received 58,54 % of votes or 39 out of 60 mandates in the City Council. This means that effective Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs will remain to be the head of the city. The nationalists’ party All for Latvia!-FF/LNIM received 17,86% or 12 mandates and the Unity received 14,13% or 9 mandates. One of the main opponents of Nils Usakovs, the candidate for the post of Mayor of Riga Sarmite Elerte (the Unity), who originally had the first sequence number in the Unity candidate list, was moved to the third place in the list because the voters put the largest number of “cross outs” to her name. Experts commenting the results of elections, believe that the failure of many so-called “ethnic Latvian” parties in Riga could be explained by the fact that those were not able to unite for the elections. The elections were also characterised by very low activity of the voters – only 45,85% of the residents who have the right to vote took part in the elections.