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By ‘breaking’ the quorum, the Saeima fails to elect Owl to the commission

On the evening of Thursday, November 19, one of many The Saeima The agenda of today’s extraordinary extraordinary sittings included the election of Juris Pūce (AP), a Member of the State Administration and Local Government and the Public Expenditure and Audit Commission, who resumed his work in the Saeima in the morning. However, this was not possible due to the lack of a quorum, so MEPs supported the proposal to adjourn the sitting until next Thursday, 26 November.

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Before the Saeima vote on the election of Pūce to the State Administration and Local Government Commission, a deputy Aldis Gobzems In the debate, Pūce called not to approve and behave as if she were not in the Saeima, because Pūce lied and illegally used the pass for “Rīgas satiksme” parking lots. Gobzem, who called Pūci his classmate, called on him to lay down his mandate.

The deputy Yulia Stephanenko also said that the Saeima should not become a reserve of people, and expressed the opinion that Pūce has no place in the Saeima.

Already in the first round, when voting for Pūce’s election to the State Administration and Local Government Commission, there was no quorum, ie a large number of deputies present did not vote. All the ruling coalition factions voted for Pūce’s election, except for the New Conservative Party faction, which did not take part in the vote. Opposition officials did the same.

Speaker of the Saeima Ināra Mūrniece (NA) called on Members to vote again and to carry out their duties, but also in the second round, 46 Members did not vote, 45 were in favor and one was against. As the quorum was not secured in the second round, a proposal was made to adjourn the sitting until 26 November, which was also supported by a majority of Members.

It has already been reported that on Thursday, November 19, Pūce was reinstated as a Saeima deputy and resumed his work in the Saeima. The owl had left the mandate of the 13th Saeima deputy in January 2019 for the term of office of the Minister. However, after resigning as Minister of the Environment and Regional Development, Pūce decided to renew his mandate in early November.

At the remote extraordinary sitting of the Saeima, the Saeima Commission for Mandates, Ethics and Submissions announced that in accordance with the second part of Article 5 of the Saeima Rules of Procedure and Pūce’s November 13 request to renew the mandate of the Saeima deputy, he had resigned. she 13. The Saeima powers of a Member.

It has already been reported that on November 12, Pūce decided to resign from the post of minister after publicly lied about not using or seriously asking party members to arrange for him a parking pass for a deputy of the Riga City Council.

Owl ‘s former party member Mitcherevsky announced that Pūce has asked him to provide a parking pass for a deputy of the Riga City Council, but Pūce justified that it was just a joke.

The next day, however, Pūce admitted that it was not a joke, and that he had lied and thus made a mistake, for which he is now ashamed.

“I sincerely apologize for my actions and I sincerely regret it. I have made a mistake in the parking lot of Riga municipality, I have really made a very unsuccessful choice. I have misled my colleagues and the Latvian society,” Pūce said when announcing his resignation.

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