{"id":115585,"date":"2022-10-02T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115585"},"modified":"2022-10-03T08:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:42:53","slug":"bloomberg-chief-putin-critic-clinches-key-election-victory-in-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115585","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Chief Putin Critic Clinches Key Election Victory in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins, a staunch critic of Vladimir Putin, won a decisive victory in general elections as voters punished a party backed by ethnic Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Bolstered by its vocal opposition of the Russian president\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Karins\u2019s New Unity won 19% of the vote, according to a final results released by the central election commission.<\/p>\n<p>Harmony, a group that won the last three elections with support of many Russians who make up about a quarter of Latvia\u2019s 1.9 million population, failed to make it into parliament for the first time since its inception in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-01\/chief-putin-critic-wins-elections-in-latvia-exit-poll-shows\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins\u2019s party won parliamentary elections, an exit poll showed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HNGj8UE9xs\">https:\/\/t.co\/HNGj8UE9xs<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaroneglitis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@aaroneglitis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Piotr Skolimowski (@Skolimowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Skolimowski\/status\/1576881657432313856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins, a staunch critic of Vladimir Putin, won a decisive victory in general elections as voters punished a party backed by ethnic Russians. Bolstered by its vocal opposition of the Russian president\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Karins\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115585\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,475,151,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-latvia","category-politics-in-general","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115588,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115585\/revisions\/115588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}