Artūras Toms Plešs nominated Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development for the Development of Latvia / Article / LSM.lv

For the development of Latvia, the board, in response to the events, has listened to the views of party members and decided to make significant internal changes. With the resignation of Juris Pūcs, the Board has decided to nominate Ivars Ijaba as the acting chairman and candidate for the co-chair of the association “For Development / For”, while the representatives of the party “For Development Latvia” .

On November 13 and 14, the board of the party for the development of Latvia convened meetings of members. More than 100 party members attended the online members’ meetings to hear Yuri Puce and the party board. Everyone who wanted it expressed their opinion and asked questions, as well as expressed their vision for the further development and development of the party.

At the meeting, Juris Pūce apologized to the members for providing false information, regretted his actions and readiness to take full political responsibility for this.

“Thank you to the members of the party” Development of Latvia “for the expressed support, I appreciate it very much. However, I believe that in this situation it is right to take responsibility not only towards the society, but also towards my party and association members. Therefore, I have decided to leave the position of co-chairman of the association “For Development / For”, as well as the position of the chairman of the board of the party “For the Development of Latvia”. The question is no longer about me. I deeply believe in the strength and future of our party. Contrary to the slanderer’s claims, there is no Owl Party in Latvia’s development, in which everyone listens to the dictates of one person. Latvia’s development has a team of strong leaders who enjoy the broad trust and high esteem of party members in society. We have promising young leaders of the future, we have strong teams in the regions. This is the right time to demonstrate our togetherness and strength, ”said Juris Pūce.

For the development of Latvia, the members praised Juris Pūce’s achievements as Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development in both environmental protection and Latvia’s digital environment reforms, emphasizing the professional work of his team in the direction of the Latvian State’s urgently needed Administrative Territorial Reform and the need for Pūce , which has already gone further than in previous decades.

The Board of the Party for the Development of Latvia decided to nominate Artūrs Toms Plešs, a Member of the 13th Saeima and a member of the Board of the Party, as the Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development.

The members of the Board emphasized that Artūrs Toms Plešs, who has been the Parliamentary Secretary of the MEPRD until now, would be best able to perform the duties of the Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, as he fully manages the work of this ministry and reform.

The candidacy of Artūrs Tomas Plešs will be discussed by the association “For Development / For!” board and representatives meeting next week.

The board of the party “For the Development of Latvia” also nominates Ivars Ijabu, a member of the European Parliament and a member of the board, to the association “For Development / Par!” as the acting chairman of the party board, as well as appointing Ivars Ijaba as the acting chairman of the party board until the party congress is convened to elect a new chairman of the party board in accordance with the statutes.

“Currently, it is very important for the Latvian Development Party team to be united and strong, because currently the priority is to prepare for a powerful start in the 2021 local elections, as well as to continue implementing the party’s political initiatives in the Saeima, government and European Parliament,” said Ivars Ijabs.

The Secretary General of the Party for the Development of Latvia, Jelena Jesayana, pointed out that a party congress would be organized in the near future, in accordance with the party’s statutes and the country’s restrictions on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Association “For Development / For!” co-chair Daniels Pavļuts for the time being Latvian Radio refrained from commenting on Plesis’s nomination.

“To” Movement For! ” I will not comment on the board discussion. Let’s comment on Monday. I will clarify that Plešs has yet been nominated as the preferred candidate of one member party, which the association has yet to agree on, ”Pavluts pointed out.

CONTEXT:

On Tuesday, Riga City Councilor Maris Mičerevskis announced the actions of Minister Juris Pūce, using the free pass of Riga municipality parking lots for his own needs, in the LTV program “One on One”. withdrew from the party “Latvia’s Development”. He claimedthat Pūce has asked him to provide a pass for free use of municipal parking lots.

The next day, Pūce denied any efforts to obtain a free municipal parking pass in Riga, claiming that correspondence with Micherevsky on the subject was just a joke.

Following these statements, the Prime Minister stated that he expected the assessment of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau in this case.

But the mayor of Riga has started a discussion on renouncing the privilege of deputies for free parking.

November 12 Juris Pūce admitted that he had lied and announced that he had decided to resign, informing the head of government Krišjānis Kariņš.

In November 2013, a week after the Zolitude tragedy, Owl resigned as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economics after some politicians saw a conflict of interest in the fact that his wife runs the Ascendum, which has received donations from builders for various cultural, artistic and educational projects. , the sector of which is supervised by the Ministry of Economics, according to the archives of the agency LETA. At that time, the then Minister Daniels Pavļuts explained that a draft order on the suspension of Pūce from office for the period of investigation had already been prepared at the MoE.

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