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Latvia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Jānis Ikstens
Jānis Ikstens*
Affiliation:
University of Latvia
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The year 2014 saw two elections in Latvia held against the background of an escalating war in Ukraine and a corresponding securitisation of political discourse that also contained signs of a leftward drift. The year also produced Latvia’s first female prime minister.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , December 2015, pp. 181 - 189
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Copyright © 2016 European Consortium for Political Research

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