Māris Kučinskis

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Māris Kučinskis

Māris Kučinskis (born November 28, 1961 in Limbaži district ) is a Latvian politician and was Prime Minister of his country from February 11, 2016 to January 23, 2019 .

Life

After completing school in Valmiera , Māris Kučinskis studied economics at the University of Latvia in Riga from 1983 to 1988 . He then worked in the local government of Valmiera. In 1991 he co-founded the company "SIA Apgāds", which was mainly active in the building materials trade. He also worked for the local energy supplier "Valmieras enerģija" and for the house and property management company "Valmieras namsaimnieks". Since 2011 he has worked for the "Association of Large Cities of Latvia" ( Latvijas Lielo Pilsētu asociācija , LLPA), the union of the nine so-called " Republic cities ". In 2013 he became its managing director. In addition, since 2012 he has headed the lobby agency “Liepājas pārstāvniecība Rīgā” (representation of Liepājas in Riga).

Māris Kučinskis is married to Laine Kučinska. He has two sons from a previous marriage.

Political career

Kučinskis began his political career in 1994 in local politics, in the city council of Valmiera. From 1996 to 2003 he was its chairman (with one interruption in 1997/1998). From 1998 to 2000 he was chairman of the Council of the then Rajons Valmiera. In 1998 he ran on the list of the Tautas partija (People's Party, TP) in the election for the 7th Saeima for the first time - unsuccessfully - for a parliamentary seat. He also failed in the election for the 8th Saeima in 2002, but won a seat in parliament the following year as a successor . From 2004 to 2006 he was Minister for Regional Development and Local Self-Government in the first cabinet of Aigars Kalvītis . From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the TP in the 9th Saeima, then, in the 10th Saeima (2010/2011), a member of the electoral alliance Par Labu Latviju! (PLL), which TP 2010 joined. In the election for the 11th Saeima 2011 he ran - unsuccessfully - on the list of the party Zaļo un Zemnieku savienība (ZZS, Alliance of Greens and Peasants). In the elections for the 12th Saeima in 2014, Kučinskis returned to parliament on the ZZS list.

Kučinskis is a member of the small regional party Liepājas partija , which is active in Courland and is controlled by the businessman Uldis Sesks, the long-time mayor of Liepāja. Liepājas partija is connected to the larger party ZZS through an alliance that enables it to exert influence on a national level.

After Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma resigned in December 2015, President Raimonds Vējonis instructed Kučinskis on January 13, 2016 to form a new government. On February 11, 2016, the Saeima elected him the 13th Prime Minister since Latvia regained independence. On the same day he presented his cabinet .

After he was able to win a mandate in the parliamentary elections in Latvia in 2018 , but his party was no longer involved in the government, he stayed as a member of parliament.

Web links

Commons : Māris Kučinskis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biogrāfija ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Latvian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mariskucinskis.wordpress.com
  2. ↑ a b Māris Kučinskis on the website of the Latvian government (English), accessed on February 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Mr K. in action: you only live twice! from lettland.blogspot.de, January 22, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Māris Kučinskis vadīs Liepājas pārstāvniecību Rīgā (Latvian, translation of the title: Māris Kučinskis heads Liepāja's representation in Riga ) , accessed on February 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Veser: End of stagnation? Latvia has a government again . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 12, 2016, p. 8.
  6. ↑ Press release of the Latvian State Chancellery: Government headed by Māris Kučinskis launches work , accessed on February 15, 2016.
predecessor Office successor
Laimdota Straujuma Prime Minister of Latvia
February 11, 2016–23. January 2019 		Krišjānis Kariņš
personal data
SURNAME Kučinskis, Māris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Limbaži district