RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Latvian center-right Prime Minister Evika Silina announced her resignation on Thursday, after the Progressives Party, her left-leaning coalition partner, pulled support from the government and left her without a majority.
“My priority has always been, and remains, the well-being and security of Latvia’s people,” Silina wrote on X on Thursday. “Parties and coalitions change, but Latvia endures. And my responsibility to society comes above all else.”
Last week Latvia’s Defense Minister Andris Sprūds, from the Progressives Party, was forced to resign over the government’s handling of multiple incidents involving stray Ukrainian drones crossing into Latvian territory.
Multiple Ukrainian drones headed for Russia hit the territory of countries in the Baltic region over the past weeks.
The governing tripartite coalition, which also included an agrarian party, had been under strain for months over multiple issues.
General elections were due in October.
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, tasked with appointing a new head of government, is set to meet with representatives of all parliamentary parties on Friday.
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