Kalvītis II's cabinet

The Kalvītis II cabinet was the thirteenth government of Latvia after independence in 1990. It was in office from November 7, 2006 to December 20, 2007.

In the parliamentary elections in October 2006 , a Latvian government was confirmed in office for the first time. The three coalition partners, the People's Party (TP), Latvia's Way / Latvia's First Party (LC / LPP) and the Alliance of Greens and Peasants (ZZS) together held 51 of the 100 parliamentary seats. The Party For Fatherland and Freedom (TB / LNNK), which the government had previously tolerated, was accepted into the coalition government, which was able to rely on 59 MPs.

The strong economic growth of recent years began to weaken and the government, like the previous government, was embroiled in corruption scandals. The attempt by Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis on September 24, 2007 to fire the head of the Anti-Corruption Agency ( KNAB ) Aleksejs Loskutovs led to a rift within his party, the TP. Four ministers left the government. Even though Kalvītis narrowly won the vote of confidence in parliament on October 19, public protests led Kalvītis to resign on December 5. The successor government , headed by the previous Interior Minister Ivars Godmanis (LC / LPP), who was Prime Minister from 1990 to 1993, was based on the same four factions as the Kalvītis government.

Cabinet members

Department	Surname		Term of office
Prime Minister	Aigars Kalvītis	TP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Defense Minister	Atis Slakteris	TP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Foreign minister	Artis Pabriks	TP	November 7, 2006 - October 28, 2007
Foreign Minister	Helēna Demakova (acting)	TP	October 29, 2007 - November 8, 2007
Foreign minister	Māris Riekstiņš	TP	November 8, 2007 - December 20, 2007
Minister for Children and Families	Ainars Baštiks	LPP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Economics Minister	Jurijs Strods	TB / LNNK	November 7, 2006 - September 17, 2007
	Aigars Kalvītis (acting)	TP	September 18, 2007 - October 22, 2007
	Gaidis Bērziņš	TB / LNNK	October 22, 2007 - December 20, 2007
Finance minister	Oskars Spurdziņš	TP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Interior minister	Ivars Godmanis	LC	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister for Education and Science	Baiba Rivža	LZS	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister of Culture	Helēna Demakova	TP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister of Social Affairs	Dagnija Staķe	LZS	November 7, 2006 - November 8, 2006
Minister of Social Affairs	Iveta Purne	LZS	November 8, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister for Regional Development and Local Authorities	Aigars Štokenbergs	TP	November 7, 2006 - October 19, 2007
	Oskars Spurdziņš	TP	October 20, 2007 - November 8, 2007
	Edgars Zalāns	TP	November 8, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister of transport	Ainārs Šlesers	LPP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister of Justice	Gaidis Bērziņš	TB / LNNK	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister of Health	Gundars Bērziņš	TP	November 7, 2006 - January 17, 2007
	Aigars Kalvītis (acting)	TP	January 18, 2007 - January 25, 2007
	Vinets Veldre	TP	January 25, 2007 - December 20, 2007
Environment Minister	Raimonds Vējonis	LZP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Minister of Agriculture	Mārtiņš Roze	LZS	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007

Minister for Special Affairs
Electronic government	Ina Gudele	LZS	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
Social integration	Oskars Kastēns	LPP	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007
EU funding	Normunds Broks	TB / LNNK	November 7, 2006 - December 20, 2007

Parties

	Political party
	Latvian Way (LC)
	Latvia's First Party (LPP)
	Green Party of Latvia (LZP)
	Farmers' Union of Latvia (LZS)
	For Fatherland and Freedom (TB / LNNK)
	People's Party (TP)

Remarks

LC and LPP ran for the 2006 general election with a common list and formed a common faction in the 9th Saeima . In August 2007 the two parties merged.

The Latvian Green Party (LZP) and the Latvian Farmers' Union (LZS) competed in the 2006 elections, as they did in 2002, with a common list Alliance of Greens and Farmers (ZZS) and formed a common parliamentary group.

Web links

Latvijas Republikas valdības sastāvs 2006.gada 7.novembris - 2007.gada 20.decembris. (PDF) Latvian Government, accessed August 24, 2019 (Latvian).

Individual evidence

↑ The Fischer World Almanac 2008 . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-72008-8 , pp. 304 .
↑ The Fischer World Almanac 2009 . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-72009-5 , pp. 302 f .
↑ Dieter Nohlen , Philip Stöver (Ed.): Elections in Europe. A data handbook . 1st edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 , p. 1142 (English).
^ ^A ^b Thomas Schmidt: The political system of Latvia . In: Wolfgang Ismayr (Ed.): The political systems of Eastern Europe . 3rd, updated and revised edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17181-4 , p. 155 f .

[WA_2008-1] The Fischer World Almanac 2008 . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-72008-8 , pp. 304 .

[WA_2009-2] The Fischer World Almanac 2009 . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-72009-5 , pp. 302 f .

[Nohlen-3] Dieter Nohlen , Philip Stöver (Ed.): Elections in Europe. A data handbook . 1st edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 , p. 1142 (English).

[Ismayr-4] A ^b Thomas Schmidt: The political system of Latvia . In: Wolfgang Ismayr (Ed.): The political systems of Eastern Europe . 3rd, updated and revised edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17181-4 , p. 155 f .