Solvita Āboltiņa

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Solvita Āboltiņa (born: Mellupe ; born February 19, 1963 in Riga ) is a Latvian lawyer and politician. From 2004 to 2006 she was Minister of Justice of her country, from 2010 to 2014 President of the Saeima , from 2014 to 2016 chairwoman of the Vienotība party .

Solvita Āboltiņa (2010)

Life

Solvita Āboltiņa is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Latvia in Riga. She worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, where she became head of the Consular Affairs Department.

In 2002 she was one of the founders of the New Era party ( Jaunais Laiks ) and headed a working group that dealt with the framework conditions for fighting corruption. For her party, Āboltiņa sat in the Latvian parliament, the Saeima , from 2000 to 2002 , where she served as chairman of the legal committee. On December 2, 2004, she became Minister of Justice in the Kalvītis I cabinet and remained so until April 7, 2006, when her party left the ruling coalition.

In the elections for the 9th Saeima in 2006, Solvita Āboltiņa was re-elected to parliament, she was elected a member of the European and Legal Committees and was elected vice-president of the Saeima. In the spring of 2008 she replaced Einars Repše as party leader of Jaunais laiks . In 2010 she won a mandate for the Vienotība party alliance in the elections for the 10th Saeima . On November 2, 2010, the MPs elected her to chair the parliament. She also held this office in the 11th Saeima. She is considered to be one of the people who brought about the resignation of Laimdota Straujuma's cabinet in December 2015. At the end of 2017, she was expelled from her party, resigned her parliamentary mandate and switched to the diplomatic service. She has been the head of the Latvian Embassy in Italy since July 31, 2018.

Āboltiņa is one of the 89 people from the European Union against whom Russia imposed an entry ban in May 2015 .

Solvita Āboltiņa speaks Latvian, Russian, English and German. She is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Solvita Āboltiņa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] .
  2. ↑ www.apollo.lv , accessed on October 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Veser: End with the announcement of Riga after Straujuma's resignation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 9, 2015, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Page of Vienot → ba (accessed on August 20, 2018)
  5. ↑ diena.lv (accessed August 20, 2018)
  6. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Entry bans: Russia accuses EU politicians of showing behavior. In: Spiegel Online. May 31, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  7. ^ RUS: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF 23 KB) In: yle.fi. May 26, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  8. ^ Page of the Saeima ( Memento of December 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 15, 2011 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Āboltiņa, Solvita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mellupe, Solvita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian politician and Minister of Justice, member of the Saeima
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR