Aysu Bicer<\/p>\n
16 May 2026\u2022Update: 16 May 2026<\/p>\n
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics has tasked opposition politician Andris Kulbergs with forming a new government following the collapse of the country\u2019s ruling coalition.<\/p>\n
The announcement came after consultations with political parties on Saturday, days after Prime Minister Evika Silina resigned amid the fall of the three-party coalition government.<\/p>\n
Rinkevics said it would be better for Latvia to have a new administration rather than allow the current government to continue in a caretaker role until parliamentary elections in five months.<\/p>\n
“It won’t be an easy path; it will be quite a complicated path because the political rhetoric has been heated,” he admitted.<\/p>\n
The president said the process would need to move faster than usual because of the limited time before the next elections.<\/p>\n
Kulbergs, whose United List is currently the largest opposition force in parliament, said any new administration must focus on security, the budget and fighting corruption.<\/p>\n
“This must be a coalition of action, where emotions and disputes must be put aside,” Kulbergs told reporters at Riga Castle.<\/p>\n
“Security is an obvious priority, money has been allocated for it, we just need to act responsibly.”<\/p>\n
Kulbergs has until May 25 to report back to the president on coalition talks, possible ministerial responsibilities and a draft government declaration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aysu Bicer 16 May 2026\u2022Update: 16 May 2026 Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics has tasked opposition politician Andris Kulbergs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[169,168,31849],"class_list":{"0":"post-84108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-riga","8":"tag-latvia","9":"tag-riga","10":"tag-sitekeywords"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116586299149982734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}