Autumn Session in Riga: Parliament’s Hope for Effective Governance and Opposition Obstruction

The autumn session in Riga was opened by Parliament Speaker Lauri Husar, who expressed the hope that the Parliament will be able to resume effective work in the autumn. The country’s president, Alars Karis, who addressed the deputies after Husar, also expressed a similar hope.

“In order for the country to function and solve the necessary issues, it must be able to be governed, therefore the republican government must have sufficient freedom of action, but the second principle is that governance must be democratic – transparent, justified and subject to parliamentary control,” Karis said.

However, when the speaker of the parliament began the first sitting of the autumn session, it became clear that the opposition was continuing its obstruction. The opposition MPs did not like the agenda developed by the board of Rīgīkogu and it started a bunch of procedural issues.

Husar answered procedural questions for 45 minutes, then stopped taking them, saying the questions were starting to repeat themselves. Monday’s session continued when the agenda was approved by vote, but before that the opposition Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) requested a ten-minute break.

2023-09-11 16:55:00
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