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1st LD: Latvian PM resigns

Xinhua, December 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma announced her resignation on Monday after meeting with the country's president Raimonds Vejonis.

"I have informed the president of the government's resignation," Straujuma told reporters.

The resignation spelled the end of Latvia's current coalition government, which consisted of Straujuma's center-right Unity party, centrist Greens and Farmers Union ZZS and nationalist conservative National Alliance.

In early November, Straujuma sacked Transport Minister Anrijs Matiss, who is not a member of the Unity, but was originally appointed to the post as a candidate of the Unity. The dismissal triggered rumors about the instability of the government and its eventual collapse.

Straujuma had been prime minister since January 2014. Her current cabinet was formed in November 2014 after the Unity won parliamentary elections. Endi