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  • The Latvian capital Riga elected a new liberal mayor on Friday following months of political turmoil after the previous pro-Russia incumbent was sacked for alleged financial misconduct. Martins Stakis, 41, will preside over a broad multi-party coalition which won city council elections in August, putting three previously dominant pro-Kremlin parties in opposition. "We're going to restart Riga," Stakis, a former member of parliament who also owns a coffee business, said in his first speech as mayor. Former mayor Nils Usakovs, head of the pro-Kremlin Harmony party, was sacked over fraud allegations in 2019 after a 10-year tenure. He was briefly detained in a corruption probe over bus and tram purchases for city-owned public transportation company Rigas Satiksme. Stakis was approved as mayor by the city council. "Two years ago the former kleptocratic, Moscow-oriented regime in Riga looked invincible, but we did the impossible and changed everything," Valdis Gavars, a community organiser and neighbourhood activist elected into city council, told AFP after the vote. Usakovs' departure was followed by months of turmoil with a variety of interim mayors. One of them, Dainis Turlais, only lasted three weeks before being voted out for announcing that his first foreign trip would be to Moscow. Nearly 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian remains the most widely spoken language in Riga and more than a third of city residents identify themselves as ethnic Russian. il-dt/spm
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  • Riga gets new liberal mayor after turmoil
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