Latvia’s ruling centre-right coalition parties wins election

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Oct 6,

Latvia’s ruling centre-right coalition parties have won a clear majority in the country’s parliamentary election, despite a pro-Russian party coming top. There is great concern in Latvia about Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and its influence in the Baltic region. The coalition parties won at least 61 seats in the 100-seat parliament. Harmony, a party allied with the Kremlin party United Russia, got 24. Ethnic Russians, about a quarter of the population mostly backed Harmony. The former Soviet republic, like its Baltic neighbours Estonia and Lithuania, is a member of both the EU and Nato.