This week’s political party talks planned by New Unity (JV) political party will touch on the various topics related to education and healthcare.
Discussions will continue even during the Song and Dance Celebration week. On Wednesday, the 28th of July, politicians plan to discuss education-related topics. Healthcare will be discussed on a different day.
Latvian PM Krišjānis Kariņš has invited all five parties to attend, but the Combined List (AS) and the National Alliance (NA) refused to come to any previous meetings.
This means the meetings have so far been attended only by JV, Union of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) and Progressive party (PRO).
So far discussions have touched on three topics – labour force, capital market and human rights.
Education, organisation of the school network, as well as healthcare-related topics are the last ones to be addressed by these meetings.
The PM has said multiple times he wants to see a more dynamic approach from the coalition.
Currently it is unknown if these party talks could result in a new government. But politicians nonetheless allow that the situation may become clear around mid-July, after the end of the Song and Dance Celebration and the NATO summit in Vilnius.
Currently the ruling coalition in Latvia consists of JV, NA and AS. However, after their failure to agree on a single presidential candidate,
Kariņš commenced talks about a possible expansion of the coalition with ZZS and PRO. NA and AS are on record of objecting to the possible expansion of the coalition.
Kariņš had previously mentioned he wants to see an expanded coalition to ensure a faster re-organisation of the school network, improvement of the situation in the healthcare sector, labour-related issues, the release of shares of state companies on the exchange, as well as various social topics, including the ratification of the Istanbul Convention as “a symbolic, but deeply important Saeima gesture”.
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