“This is an impossible mission!” A veteran of Latvian politics on whether the Minister of Agriculture can be dismissed 0 8

As previously reported, Prime Minister Evika Silina, after receiving the commission's conclusion regarding support for woodworking companies, acknowledged that the question of dismissing Minister of Agriculture Armands Krauze could be considered. However, after yesterday's discussion of this "woodworking case," the head of government indicated that the dismissal of the Minister of Agriculture is not currently on the agenda - now the scandal is being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office and the State Audit Office.

One can understand the Prime Minister: attempting to dismiss not just any minister, but one of the leaders of the Union of Greens and Farmers (UGF), is fraught with the collapse of the government. This was clearly stated by veteran Latvian politician and deputy head of the UGF faction Augusts Brigmanis, who responded on TV-24 to a question about the possible political responsibility of the Minister of Agriculture: "This is an impossible mission! The decision to support the woodworking industry was made by the entire government. Now the 'progressives' want to tell us that they did not read the documents or did not understand that they do not have the appropriate specialists or advisors. But since the decision was made by the entire government, if it is recognized that this was an improper decision, then the entire government should be held accountable for it." Brigmanis believes that this entire scandal, two years after the government's decision, was deliberately inflated by the 'progressives' to "take revenge on the 'green farmers' for our position on the Istanbul Convention."