Kārlis Daukšts: One will get the impression that the election outcomes are already pre-arranged

“nra.lv” a dialog with political scientist Kārli Daukšta in regards to the attainable impression of the European Parliament election outcomes on Latvia and Europe.

How do you assess the outcomes of the European Parliament elections?

Elections in Latvia handed with out black and extreme campaigns. Additionally in lots of different nations, the European Parliament elections haven’t been crucial, huge occasions. In my view, these decisions have change into a sort of incomprehensible obligation, reasonably than freedom of alternative. Maybe, sooner or later, this course of should discover a new manner.

Do you imply the issue that there was very low exercise in Latvia?

Not solely in Latvia, but in addition somewhere else in Europe, there is no such thing as a such idea that may appeal to many individuals and reply to individuals’s on a regular basis considerations. Day by day worries are incompatible with the issues that exist within the European Union.

Throughout the marketing campaign, commitments to guard Latvian pursuits have been evident; related slogans have been additionally used within the rhetoric of different European politicians. Does a member of the European Parliament not have many alternatives to signify or defend their nation?

All European politics and politicians have gone down a path that guarantees an unknown future. In my view, this prevents individuals from understanding the which means and nature of this election.

Do you see any surprises within the election outcomes?

Personally, I already felt like that, that there is no such thing as a nice shock and that there can be no shock. All the pieces appeared to be pre-arranged. I’m in Latgale for the time being, and right here this difficulty of “dialog” has change into one thing of a driving horse in public opinion. In different phrases, persons are embarrassed, they really feel as if they can not determine something themselves, nothing depends upon their very own voice, as if “every little thing is agreed already in Riga”.

Earlier than that, Tatjana Ždanoka traveled from Latvia to Brussels. Now there is no such thing as a such devoted Kremlin politician anymore. What occur?

In my view, at present the variety of Russian audio system who help the warfare and are in opposition to Latvia has not decreased, nevertheless it has disappeared. In my view, they don’t exit a lot with their decisions and conceal their true beliefs. That’s the reason the election has this outcome.

He was once militant, now is not he?

This militancy is expounded to the truth that they subconsciously perceive that Russia is just not proper in Ukraine, however they need the Latvians to deal with them in a different way. There’s a break time in Russian Latvian society. In my view, the progress ought to include a a lot stronger Latvian contact – that is simply the correct time when it might be carried out in Latvia.

Will the European Parliament elections introduce any adjustments in Latvia?

I’m afraid to foretell about Latvia, however steadily the entire European Union is going through one drawback – it’s a debate about the way forward for Europe. Both it should be a federal Europe or a Europe of countries.

It’s apparent that far-right events within the European Union have gained extra mandates than earlier than. Methods to clarify?

There’s a xenophobic feeling in lots of locations in Europe, and it additionally manifests itself in help of events that advocate to forestall migration from Africa, Asia and the Center East.

The forces of the left, Marxists, have extra orders than there have been…

Radical forces are gaining increasingly more affect, as a bigger a part of society needs some sort of motion, an occasion, a outcome, as a substitute of going round with small issues that result in nothing. in human life and in on a regular basis life.

There’s home political turmoil solely in France, the place President Emmanuel Macron, trying on the spectacular results of the chief of the far-right celebration, Marine Le Pen within the European Parliament elections, on the dissolve parliament and name snap elections. Ought to he have carried out that, or is it a mistake?

Macron is figuring out of his private positions as a result of his celebration has misplaced. He believes that the parliamentary elections will carry good outcomes for his celebration after which he could have taken revenge and preserve his victory. He hopes that’s the calculation. Some political technologists could have analyzed it and labored it out like that, and beneficial it to him.

In Latvia, nearly all of the general public doesn’t know which teams of deputies the elected representatives will work for after the elections – within the European Parliament, earnings is split into a number of political forces that don’t correspond to names like “new unity”, “United Listing” or the Nationwide Union.

In Latvia, individuals have performed a key function, however usually the celebration from the record that these politicians ran was not necessary in any respect. There are additionally record leaders who haven’t even joined the celebration.

It should be agreed that your entire paperwork of the European Union is so obscure each in its choices and within the interpretation of these choices that many individuals have misplaced any actual connection between the choices that can be made within the Brussels and their very own private and home life. in Latvia. Folks don’t see such a connection. This hinders additional improvement of the European concept.

Effectively, individuals have in all probability heard no less than one choice, and it was made in Brussels – to any extent further, cellphones should have chargers of a uniform high quality, so that there’s additionally a charger of 1 model answering one other model’s telephone. It’s a very constructive choice that makes life extra comfy!

It is good however bitter humor. Thanks Brussels!