RIGA – From party chief to presidential candidate, Anatolijs Gorbunovs is Latvia's great political survivor. However, the public is strongly ambivalent about his merits for the position, which the Parliament will vote for come June 17.Oddly, he himself does not seem crazy about getting the top job either. Late last year he shocked his Latvia's Way party colleagues by announcing he would not stand for president. Factions on the left and the right would not give him the vote and the people of Latvia still feel uncomfortable about his past, he said at the time.But other party members refused t...
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