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Latvia: Referendum

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 11 April 2008 22:20 GMT

Peteris Cedrins of Marginalia is one of the 213,000 people who “signed in favor of amendments to […] Latvia's Constitution, that would make it possible for the people to initiate the dissolution of Parliament”: “Still, I signed… because I trust our people — our nation — a lot more than I trust our so-called elite.”

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Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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