RIGA - The Parliament voted July 16 to give People's Party leader Andris Skele a third shot at steering Latvia's ship of state.Sixty of the Parliament's 100 deputies voted to support a three-party coalition that comprises the People's Party, late of the opposition, right wingers For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and the center-right Latvia's Way. Skele will assume the prime minister's chair for the third time since 1995.Thirty-seven MPs from the remaining parties in Parliament - the Social Democrats, the New Party and For Human Rights in a United Latvia - voted against the government.The new ...
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