Deputies of a large Latvian city will be asked to leave with their belongings

The ruling coalition at its weekly meeting must give the green light to the launch of the legal procedure for the dissolution of the Rezekne City Council.

To do this, the Seimas will first approve amendments to the Law on Self-Governments so that the Duma can be dissolved without early elections, and then the parliament will adopt the law itself on the dissolution of the current convocation of the Rezekne Duma. The dissolution bill is already ready, and perhaps today or next Tuesday the Cabinet of Ministers will consider it.

A temporary administration of three people will govern the city until a new council comes to power – at the beginning of July next year.

The annotation to the bill lists and describes in detail all the sins of the current Duma, which resulted in a significant financial shortfall.

An employee of the Ministry of Justice, the former chief notary of the Register of Enterprises, Guna Puce, has been entrusted with leading the temporary administration; her deputies will be the rector of the Rezekne Academy of Technology, Iveta Mietule, and the official Janis Belkovskis.

The chairman will receive 5,064 euros before taxes, and his deputies – 4,340.

Let us remind you that this is the second dissolution of self-government recently – at the beginning of 2020 the Riga City Council was dismissed. True, then it was decided to hold early elections – they took place at the end of August of the same year.

At the same time, the bill provided that the capital’s Duma, elected in early elections, would work for almost five years – until the next self-government elections in June 2025.