Former Saeima deputy Reinis Znotiņš decided to leave the Conservative Party after a conflict he himself instigated with his neighbours, as LETA was told by Conservative Party leader Gatis Eglītis.
His Twitter account mentions that Znotiņš decided to take responsibility for his unethical behaviour and leave the party.
“We expect similar actions from members of other parties who have violated rules for ethical behaviour at some point,” as mentioned in the party’s entry on social networks.
When asked about the party’s opinion of Znotiņš instigating a conflict with his neighbours and how the former parliamentarian had misled people about the facts with his initial Tweet,
Eglītis only said that the Conservative Party only sees that he took responsibility for his actions by leaving the party.
In a recent conflict with his neighbours Znotiņš was aggressive and shouted obsenities at them. He also boasted his former position, according to the video that surfaced on the internet after he publicly blamed his neighbours of “choosing the wrong conversation language”.
In this video, though certain moments may have been edited out, show Znotiņš yelling at his neighbour, demanding that he listens to him because he was in charge of this country for a long time. The former deputy also accused his neighbour of not contributing enough to help the Latvian nation.
In this video his neighbour spoke with Znotiņš in Latvian language, asking him to go home, promising to return to the conversation once the ex-Saeima deputy has slept off his hangover.
Later in the video police arrive. Police officers, like Znotiņš’s neighbour, invite him to sleep off the hangover. In response, the ex-Saeima deputy threatens them with a call to Minister of the Interior Māris Kučinskis.
Znotiņš wrote on social networks that during that conflict he insisted that his neighbour spoke Latvian in Latvia, but the Russian-speaking neighbours started strangling him in response. The former parliamentarian also said he was shocked when police officers told him he was the one in the wrong, because he was the one who provoked the Russians.
He later told LETA that he would not comment on the conflict in detail. He only said he will take this to a court of law.
However, in the evening on Wednesday, the 2nd of August, when the aforementioned video surfaced, he did not respond to phone calls from LETA.
A bit later after that Znotiņš wrote on Twitter that he wants to apologize to the people who were offended by his behaviour, “and the people who were mentioned but were not directly involved in the conflict”.
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