The ruling coalition will discuss which proposals for the "redistribution" of the budget pie to support.
"We haven't met for three weeks!" - recently lamented the "green farmers." Yes, after "New Unity" and the "Progressives" quarreled with the Union of Greens and Farmers over the Istanbul Convention, the Prime Minister canceled the coalition council meetings - apparently to avoid further aggravating the situation. But now the issue of exiting the Istanbul Convention has effectively been removed from the parliament's agenda, while the adoption of the 2026 budget is ahead, which is a reason to resume normal dialogue.
However, the "green farmers," as promised, have bombarded the budget draft with their amendments, and at the upcoming coalition meeting on Monday, November 10, there will be a discussion of both the "green farmers'" proposals and the opposition's proposals regarding the budget, and the coalition will have to decide which changes to support and which not.
The most important question on the coalition's agenda is - how to move forward? In other words, are the partners in the current composition ready to continue working in the same government or not? One thing is clear: if the "green farmers" express their willingness to continue working in Silina's government and do not block themselves on fundamental issues with the opposition, then... the Prime Minister will have to "forget" her promise to "punish" the Union of Greens and Farmers. For example, she would have to abandon the plan, imposed on her by the "Progressives," to dismiss the Minister of Welfare from the Union of Greens and Farmers, Reinis Uzulnieks, in retaliation for the demarche regarding the convention. After all, the head of the parliamentary faction of the Union of Greens and Farmers, Harijs Rokpelnis, publicly warned that the dismissal of their minister would inevitably lead to the dissolution of this government. It is unlikely that Silina is ready to lose the prime ministerial position now, with 11 months left before the elections.
