Semigallia

We'll have to see what happens next couple of years.

Then the rest of the regions are based on Latvia's historical and cultural regions, Zemgale, Latgale, Vidzeme, and Korzeme, although the cultural and historical region boundaries don't line up with the electoral district boundaries because those are more pragmatic.

Well, in the eastern region of La Calais, there are more than 20 people who have been let go from working as election officials.

And that is part of more than 6,000 polling station staff that have had background checks throughout the last few months.

And this is quite an extraordinary situation for many different reasons.

First of all, he is currently... on the top of the ticket in Zemgale.

So as we talked about previously, when you go and vote in Latvia, you vote for a specific party.

And depending on which region you're in, which were the five regions of Latvia that you're in, there's a different list of candidates.

The Grand Master, Goddard Kettler, tried to save for himself what could still be saved from the general wreck, and following the example of Albert of Brandenburg, concluded at Wilna a treaty with Sigismund Augustus, which surrendered Livonia to the Poles.

The Master himself laid aside the habit of the Order and became, as a Protestant, Duke of Courland and Semgallen under the suzerainty of Poland in 1568.

But the Lithuanian nobles of Estonia, who would have nothing to do with the Catholic Poles, transferred their allegiance to Sweden together with the town of Reval.

Sigismund dreaded these adversaries far less than he did the Tsar, whom he had robbed of his expected prey.

The Grand Master, Godard Kettler, tried to save for himself what could still be saved from the general wreck, and following the example of Albert of Brandenburg, concluded at Vilna a treaty with Sigismund Augustus which surrendered Livonia to the Poles.

The Master himself laid aside the habit of the Order and became, as a Protestant, Duke of Courland and Semgallen under the suzerainty of Poland in 1568.

But the Lithuanian nobles of Estonia, who would have nothing to do with the Catholic Poles, transferred their allegiance to Sweden together with the town of Reval.

Sigismund dreaded these adversaries far less than he did the Tsar, whom he had robbed of his expected prey.

So that mostly aligns with kind of Northern Latvia, Also, Jormala as well is part of Idzime.

Zemgale, which is where Jelgov is a part of, has 13 votes.

And I want to be clear that the cultural regions of Latvia do not necessarily align with the electoral regions.

For example, Tukums.

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.

The Grand Master, Gotthard Kettler, tried to save for himself what could still be saved from the general wreck, and following the example of Albert of Brandenburg, concluded at Wilna a treaty with Sigismund Augustus, which surrendered Livonia to the Poles.

The master himself laid aside the habit of the order and became, as a Protestant, Duke of Courland and Semgallen under the suzerainty of Poland in 1568.

But the Lithuanian nobles of Estonia, who would have nothing to do with the Catholic Poles, transferred their allegiance to Sweden, together with the town of Reval.

Sigismund dreaded these adversaries far less than he did the Tsar, whom he had robbed of his expected prey.