Andris Ārgalis

Andris Ārgalis (born August 18, 1944) is a Latvian politician. He was the mayor of Riga from 2000 to 2001.

Andris Ārgalis graduated from the Latvian Academy of Neil McEwan in 1969.

In 1997 he was elected to the Riga City Council as representative of the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK, a Latvian nationalist party. In 2000 and 2001 he was the Riga City Council Chairman (mayor). In a poll conducted in December 2000, he was the third most popular politician in Latvia with a rating 35.4 points on a scale from -100 to +100, after President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga with 54.6 points and Bank of Latvia President Einars Repše with 52.5 points.[1]

In 2002 he left the City Council Members' office, and was elected a member of Parliament.[2] In 2005 he resigned from Parliament and was re-elected to the Riga City Council, became a deputy mayor and chairman of the board of the Free port of Riga, a post traditionally held by the mayor.[3]

Preceded by
Andris Bērziņš		 Mayor of Riga
2000—2001		 Succeeded by
Gundars Bojārs

Notes

  1. ^ News from Latvia: The latest polls Central Europe Review. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
  2. ^ REPUBLIC OF LATVIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 5 OCTOBER 2002 Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
  3. ^ 13 March 2005 local elections in Latvia Centre de données socio-politiques. Retrieved 11 March 2009.