After negotiation with Evika Silina (JV) and other representatives of the New Unity (JV), the National Alliance (NA) sees no problem in continuing to work together with JV in the government, NA politician and head of the Saeima National Security Commission Janis Dombrava told journalists.
Defence Minister Inara Murniece (AN) similarly pointed out that the party shares common views with the JV on several NA priorities, such as population growth.
Murniece stressed that work should continue the implementation of the priorities already “on the table” of the current government, including in the area of security, where the equipping of the eastern border with technologies that would allow monitoring what is happening on the border should be accelerated.
AT THE SAME TIME, MURNIECE POINTS OUT THAT THE NA HAS MADE ITS POSITION CLEAR AND DOES NOT SEE THE PROGRESSIVES IN THE NEXT GOVERNMENT.
Asked whether the NA would be ready to come to joint talks with all five parties, Murniece said that the NA had always been open and ready to talk about the work to be done.
She also pointed out that the NA did not come to the government enlargement talks earlier because did not see the point and necessity of them.
DOMBRAVA, ON THE OTHER HAND, SAID THAT DURING THE MEETING BETWEEN THE JV AND THE NA, BOTH SIDES PRESENTED THEIR VISION ON PRIORITY WORKS.
For the NA, these are working on security, the economy and strengthening Latvian identity – issues on which the party also shares a similar vision with the JV.
Silina has invited representatives of the four political forces to negotiation on Friday, the 25th of August, to try to agree on the broadest possible coalition. However, politicians have expressed scepticism whether all five parties involved in the negotiation will be able to agree on the nature of a single government, which raises the question which two parties will be left “overboard”.
THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE ATTENDED BY THE JV, THE UNITED LIST (AS), THE GREENS AND THE FARMERS UNION (ZZS), THE NA AND THE PROGRESSIVES.
There is no possibility for NA and Progressives to agree to work together in the government, so only one of these parties could be included in the future coalition.
Silina has said that she sees the possibility of forming a four-party government in two combinations, one of which would include the Progressives, while the other model would include the NA. At the same time, she stressed that “other variations” were certainly possible to form a stable government with at least 51 votes.
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