Pray for rain. That's the best that can be said about this weekend's European Parliament and local government election, though it has more to do with the former than the latter. The thing is that when it's nice and sunny outside, Latvians tend to forget their civic responsibilities. They go out into the countryside, they tend to their gardens; they start thinking about the upcoming Summer Solstice bacchanalia. They don't want to think about the dark process that is politics.This year, this is terribly dangerous. Dangerous because there is far less of a problem in this fo...
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