Polls open in Latvian general elections
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(6 Oct 2018) Polls have opened in Latvia, where a party catering to the Baltic nation's large ethnic-Russian minority is expected to place first in a parliamentary election. Voters are choosing from a field of more than 1,400 candidates and 16 parties Saturday to fill Latvia's 100-seat parliament, or Saeima. Latvian public broadcaster LSM's latest poll had the left-leaning Harmony party favoured by ethnic-Russians securing the greatest share of the vote, 17.2 percent. Members of the minority account for about 25 percent of Latvia's 2 million people, a legacy of nearly 50 years of Soviet occupation that ended in 1991. The country now is a NATO member. The poll had Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis' centrist Union of Greens and Farmers in second place, with 9.4 percent. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1574a17b822379d5c70557101d0cd8df
