Making it tougher for political parties

  • 1998-07-09
  • Steven C. Johnson
RIGA – One prospective political party submitted a list of founding members replete with suspected forgeries and signatures of dead people.Another sports a name almost as long and unwieldy as its list of founders: the Party for Humans, Honor, Minds, Respect and Health.In Latvia, new parties don't steal headlines the way they would in France or Great Britain or the United States. This is a country with 42 registered parties already, and seven years after independence, the political atmosphere here is still diffuse enough to sustain a kaleidoscope of special interests.Activity among political...
 
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