Latvian liberal party Movement For! will today announce a Ukrainian citizen as its lead candidate for the European election in June. Ivanna Volochiy currently works for the Renew group in the European Parliament. Her party wants Ukraine to join a reformed EU within a decade.
Can she make it? The liberal alliance that included Movement For! and delivered MEP Ivars Ījabs to Brussels in 2019 is no longer operating, and given that Ījabs is running again for another liberal party it means their votes could be split. Movement For! is only polling around 3 percent and is no longer represented in the Latvian parliament. (source)
Resolves YES if MEP elected into the parliament in the EU election in June has Ukrainian citizenship. It does not need to be Ivanna Volochiy. Double citizenship is allowed.
Resolves NO if no such MEP can be found.
Close date might be extended if election results are not finalized.
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3.00The election results for Latvia show one seat for "Others". Does anybody know how they will resolve that? Most likely would be S/SDP.
Looks like a NO, but I'll wait a few hours for objections.
The seat for "Others" is mentioned in the context of European parliamant factions, i.e. it is not "Other Latvian parties", but "Other factions in the European parliament". Under "Breakdown of national parties and political group" you see that this seat is assigned to the "LPV - Latvija pirmajā vietā" party.