POWER GAMES

  • 1998-10-15
Latvians voted wisely when they opted to send but six political parties to the new Parliament. Too bad the big party players have thus far proven incapable of matching the maturity of the people who put them in power.It is early yet, and coalition building has been known to take months in more developed European countries. But the apparent attempts by Latvia's Way, and to a lesser degree, For Fatherland and Freedom and the New Party, to keep Andris Skele's People's Party out of the government are nothing more than vindictive power plays and an insult to Latvian voters.Mr. Skele, to put it m...
 
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