RIGA (LETA) – After considerably underbidding the Central Election Commission's (CEC) requested allocation to stage a referendum this fall, the Latvian Finance Ministry upped the ante.However, the 171,000 lats ($271,800) the ministry allocated July 13 is still considerably less than the 246,000 lats the CEC originally requested.The Finance Ministry, which set 171,000 lats as the limit, initially allocated 118,000 lats. CEC Chairman Arnis Cimdars, however, said the former figure is the absolute minimum sum required for the procedureSpokesmen for Finance Minister Roberts Zile, a member of the...
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