Māris Grīnblats
Māris Grīnblats | |
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Deputy of the Saeima | |
Personal details | |
Born | 5 January 1955 Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 14 March 2021 | (aged 66)
Political party | For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK National Alliance |
Alma mater | University of Latvia |
Māris Grīnblats (5 January 1955 – 14 March 2021) was a Latvian politician and a member of the political party For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (TB/LNNK).
Early life
Grīnblats was born on 5 January 1955 in Kuldīga, Latvian SSR.
From 1977 to 1982 he studied and graduated from the LVU Department of Philosophy. From 1980 to 1983, he was a sociologist of various departments of Latvian universities.
From 1988 Grīnblats was a member of the
He became the founding leader of
After the 1995 parliamentary election, Grīnblats, as leader of the centre-right 'National Bloc' coalition formed around TB, was asked to become Prime Minister, but, on 23 November, he failed to get the confidence of the Saeima: falling short by one vote.[4] Instead, he became Minister for Education and Science and a Deputy Prime Minister to Andris Šķēle.[5][6]
During Grīnblats leadership of TB, it merged with Latvian National Independence Movement to form the TB/LNNK, and Grīnblats became the party's first chairman. He remained in that position until 2002, at the beginning of the 8th Saeima, when he became President of the TB/LNNK's faction in the national legislature, the Saeima, which he remained in the 9th Saeima.[1]
He ran in the 2010 Latvian parliamentary election as a member of the National Alliance list, but was not elected. Since then, he was working as a consultant of the party faction in the Saeima.
He died in March 2021.[7]
Footnotes
- ^ a b Ortiz de Zárate, Roberto (2009). "Leaders of Latvia". Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-7656-1070-6.
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- ^ DELFI.lv (15 March 2021). "Mūžībā devies bijušais politiķis Māris Grīnblats". delfi.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 24 March 2021.