RIGA - The opposition National Alliance has proposed a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Evika Silina (New Unity) based on her government's decision to allocate funding to public service media for Russian-language content.
The National Alliance refers to the National Security Concept, which was adopted in 2023 and stipulates public service media content only in Latvian and languages belonging to the European culture space from January 1, 2026, with the aim of creating a unified information space, based on Latvian and other languages of the member states of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA), as well as EU and candidate countries. The financing of Russian-language content by the state should cease, while Russian-language content can continue to exist in commercial media.
The National Alliance says that the government continues to provide financing to public service media for the creation of content in Russian, which contradicts the aim of promoting all Latvian citizens' belonging to a single information space.
"We believe that the content in minority languages referred to in the Law on Public Electronic Mass Media and Administration Thereof should not be produced only in Russian and that these legal provisions do not contradict the provisions of the National Security Concept," the National Alliance said.
The draft decision prepared by the opposition lawmakers is included in the agenda of a Saeima sitting slated for next Thursday, January 15.
As reported, opposition parties in the Saeima tabled four no confidence motions in Silina last year, but she survived all four votes.
The last vote was held in October last year. At that time, 46 MPs voted against Silina's resignation, 38 voted in favor, and one lawmaker abstained.
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