Constitutional Court rules Prosecutor General is incompetent or lawless
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The Constitutional Court has left the Prosecutor General, Armīns Meisters, with two possible labels: either he is incompetent or he chooses to disregard the law. It is a blunt assessment of the state’s top prosecutor that arrives just as the political class begins its latest round of musical chairs.
While the United List party surveys its newly elected deputies to see which coalition partners they can tolerate, President Edgars Rinkēvičs has been reminding the country that the Latvian language remains the state’s only foundation. He may be right to worry; recent data shows Latvia’s student literacy rates are falling faster than those in any other OECD country.
The nation’s athletes are having a mixed week. Tennis player Jelena Ostapenko is pushing for a quarterfinal spot in Wuhan, but the basketball season will start without Kristaps Porziņģis. On the business side, the annual TOP101 list of the country’s most valuable companies has been released, providing a brief distraction from a recent data leak at the Road Traffic Safety Directorate.