Latvia’s Prime Minister Evika Silina on Thursday announced her resignation, triggering the collapse of her coalition government just months before an election due in October.
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, who is tasked by the constitution to select a leader of the government, will meet all parliamentary parties on Friday.
Silina was left without a ruling majority in the parliament on Wednesday after the left-wing Progressives party said it was withdrawing its support.
The decision followed the firing at the weekend of Progressives’ Defence Minister Andris Spruds over the handling of incidents involving stray Ukrainian drones flying into Latvia from Russia.
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