Liepāja

But they are the same people as we are all, they are not to blame if they think about a child or pay for an apartment.

from Liepāja city people, they have always looked upon Karosta as something alien, something apart.

And then all of a sudden it's not.

All of a sudden it's actually no more these Schlagbaums or these closed areas.

So we are the same.

We don't need a hero, we need just a good man and a lot of hands.

In Liepāja people call him Kalle, he is from Sweden and he came here, he is artist himself and he was so impressed about the things that he saw in this area.

He made this K-Alpha 2 organization and they are also, they own few of the buildings from SARS time.

Another thing which I would say has likely been impacted by the election season is a wind farm, which the Latvian public television investigative journalism show De Facto did an investigation into that despite them having gone through all of the proper legal avenues, having done all the proper paperwork.

Their application for a major wind farm in the area of Pavlova, which is kind of like halfway between Liepāja and Ventspils on the Baltic coast and is somewhere that is very windy, obviously very good to have a wind farm.

It was canceled by the Minister for Climate and Energy.

Janus Wittenbergs from the National Alliance, National Oppenheber.

which is a town that is kind of on the border of Zemgale and Korzome, but is considered part of the cultural region of Korzome, electorally, they are part of Zemgale.

Then Latgale, which is the eastern part of Latvia, has 12 seats, and Korzome, which is the western part of Latvia that includes, for example, Ventspils and Liepāja, has 11 seats.

So one very important thing to remember is that each of these different constituencies has a different list of candidates.

And whichever party gets the most votes will have a proportional amount of candidates who become deputies from each of these constituencies based on the percentage of the vote that they get.

know alliance really um it's really more of a political alliance than a party is a grouping of a few different parties so there's the green party as i mentioned previously then also the latvian regional alliance which itself is a grouping of a number of various regional parties and usually those regional party parties their number one plank is that our area should get more state funding you know, very, very often.

So the Latvian Association of Regions or LRA, they have kind of, they were actually previously in parliament and then they did not make it in after the 2018 election.

So for 2022, they joined together with the Greens, also the Liepāja Party, which was part of the Union of Greens and Farmers previously.

And they were spearheaded by one Uldis Pilens, who was a fairly well-known Latvian businessman who very clearly wanted to run for president because he did.

The crematoria, burning of bodies all the time, gassing, terrible.

Schwab was only nine years old when German soldiers invaded his hometown of Liepāja, Latvia.

Schwab's father, a prominent physician, tried to protect other Jews in

town.