Inese Vaidere
| Inese Vaidere | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Latvia | |
| In office 20 July 2004 – 30 June 2014 | |
| In office 1 November 2014 – present | |
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| Born | 3 September 1952 Jelgava, Latvian SSR |
| Political party | For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (1998–2008) Civic Union (2008–2011) Unity (2008–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Latvia |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Website | www.inese-vaidere.lv |
Inese Vaidere (born 3 September 1952) is a Latvian politician and a Member of the European Parliament.
She was Minister of State for the Environment in the Krištopans cabinet from 1998-1999, Vice-Mayor of Riga from 2001-2002[1] and a member of the Saeima from 2002-2004.[2] She was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 from the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK list and sat with the Union for a Europe of Nations group. In 2009 she was elected from the Civic Union list and sat with the European People's Party group. In 2014 she was placed 6th on the Unity list and was preferenced 5th by voters.[3] Unity won 4 of Latvia's European Parliament seats and she was not elected. However the first candidate elected on the list, Valdis Dombrovskis, became the European Commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue on 1 November 2014 and ceased to be a MEP. Vaidere, as next in line on the Unity list, replaced him in the Parliament.[4]
She is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[5]
References
- ↑ "Inese Vaidere". Unity. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- ↑ "Inese Vaidere". Saeima. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- ↑ "European Elections 2014". Central Election commission of Latvia. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- ↑ "History of parliamentary service". European Parliament. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- ↑ "Prague Declaration: Selected signatories". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
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