Major voter swing to Russian party

Jun 10, 2009
By TBT Staff

RIGA - A political party representing Russian minority interests has won more than 34 percent of the vote in Riga’s municipal elections in what political analysts claim is voter payback for the country’s crippling economic crisis. In a historic shift center-left party Harmony Center (SC) won about 34.29 percent of the vote in the June 6 elections, according to data from the Central Election Committee. Civic Union was second with 18.90 percent; Latvia’s First Party/Latvia’s Way (LPP/LC) third ...

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