Daugavpils – the city that Riga loves to forget

Feb 09, 2005
By Aaron Eglitis

DAUGAVPILS - For many Latvians the upcoming municipal elections in Daugavpils will go by unnoticed. However, as any visitor to the eastern city will see, the electoral stakes in Latvia’s second largest are as high as ever before. Because whoever wins will control over the debt ridden city and will wield partial control over large infusions of tens of millions of euros in EU funds over the next four years.Fourteen parties will fight it out for 15 seats in the local City Council, with the front ...

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