The National Alliance (NA) political party does not exclude the possibility of selecting their own presidential candidate if no president is elected in the first round of presidential elections, said NA board member, Saeima deputy Jānis Dombrava in an interview to Latvijas Radio on Thursday, the 25th of May.
The politician said NA will decide what to do next if no president is elected on the 31st of May. However, he also said the ideal variant would be finding a candidate the coalition can agree on.
When asked about the name of the party’s potential candidate, Dombrava said NA has “potential candidates in mind,
but there is no point to talk about that now, because no one knows what the result of the first round of upcoming elections could be”.
Next week NA plans to meet with all official presidential candidates. Once the meetings are done, the party will decide which one to vote for on Election Day, said the politician.
As previously reported, there are three presidential candidate announced for the upcoming presidential elections in Latvia: Combined List political party’s founder and businessman Uldis Pīlēns; New Unity’s candidate, Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkēvičs, and Progressive Party’s candidate, public management export Elina Pinto.
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