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President refuses to sign national security bills

Mar 14, 2007
By Talis Saule Archdeacon

PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN SWORD: Vike-Freiberga suspends national security amendments by way of the constitution.
RIGA - Latvia was plunged into a political crisis when President Vaira Vike-Freiberga invoked her constitutional right to suspend the publication of two sets of highly controversial national security amendments, an unprecedented move for the head of state. Parliament overrode the president’s veto on March 1, but the power afforded to the head of state by Article 72 of the Constitution allowed Vike-Freiberga to suspend promulgating the legislation for two months and initiate a popular referendu ...

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