Preceded by Gundars Daudze Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis Succeeded by Gaidis Berzins Name Solvita Aboltina Spouse Janis Aboltins Education University of Latvia | Succeeded by Inara Murniece Preceded by Vineta Muizniece Political party Unity Role Latvian Politician Party Unity | |
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Born 19 February 1963 (age 61)
Ogre, Soviet Union
(now Latvia) ( 1963-02-19 ) Children Anna Aboltina, Arthur Aboltin Similar People Laimdota Straujuma, Andris Berzins, Valdis Dombrovskis, Raimonds Vejonis, Inara Murniece | ||
Solvita bolti a instrumenti zemeslodes
Solvita Āboltiņa (born February 19, 1963) is a Latvian politician who was Speaker of the Saeima from 2010 until 2014.
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Early life
She graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 5, a German language immersion school in 1981, and from the Faculty of Law at the Latvian State University in 1986.
Political career
She is leader of the Unity, Latvia's largest centre-right party and partner in the current coalition government. Despite being the leader of the largest governing party, she has never been the Prime Minister of Latvia. She has been a deputy of the Saeima since November 7, 2006. In November 2014 after a parliamentary election she was replaced as speaker and appointed chairwoman of the National Security Committee of the Saeima. She caused controversy after being 'struck off' the Unity list of candidates by electors at the 2014 election. Such an outcome is possible for any candidate under Latvia's method of proportional representation. As a result, she was not returned as a member of the Saeima and elected Unity member Jānis Junkurs forfeited his mandate to allow the party President to continue to sit in parliament.
Foreign Honours
