Rihards Kozlovskis

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Rihards Kozlovskis

Rihards Kozlovskis (born May 26, 1969 in Riga ) is a Latvian politician of the Vienotība .

Life

Rihards Kozlovskis was born in 1969 in Riga, the then capital of the Latvian SSR . He passed his Abitur in 1987 at a sports high school near his hometown and then studied at a sports university in Riga until 1993 .

After the restoration of Latvia's independence, he began his career with the 1st Police Battalion of the Ministry of the Interior. He started there in February 1991 as a junior inspector, but ended his activity three months later. However, in the same year he became inspector of the government security service and worked there until 1993. He then worked for various other security services and studied from 1995 to 2003 at the law faculty of the University of Latvia . After graduating there, he worked in the Latvian Ministry of Defense from 2005 to 2007 and then worked as a lawyer.

Politician

From 2011 to 2014 Kozlovskis was a member of the Reformu partija . After the parliamentary elections in Latvia in 2011 , he was proposed as the new Interior Minister to succeed Linda Abu Meri and confirmed as part of Dombrovski's III cabinet . He assumed the same position in the following Straujuma I cabinet .

He has been a member of the Vienotība party since 2014 and won a seat in the Saeima in the parliamentary elections in the same year . In the Straujuma II cabinet he then took over the interior department again and also headed it in the Kučinski cabinet .

In the election in 2018 his party suffered heavy losses. Kozlovskis failed to defend his parliamentary mandate. After his party friends Jānis Reirs and Edgars Rinkēvičs as ministers in the new Kariņš cabinet had renounced their mandates, he took over one of the vacant seats in parliament as a successor .

Web links

Commons : Rihards Kozlovskis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaunā VIENOTĪBA , information page of the Election Commission, accessed on November 8, 2018 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kozlovskis, Rihards
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvia