Raivis Dzintars, head of the National Alliance, told Latvian Television on June 6 that the government’s work will slow down if new, ideologically distinct partners join.
Dzintars disagreed with Krišjānis Kariš (fresh Unity)’s claim that the reform process needed fresh dynamics.
For instance, if the coalition must agree on fiscal concerns. Which number makes unanimity easier? Three, four, five? [..] Attracting someone politically different and more disagreeable reduces dynamism. “Absurd arguments are being used,” claimed Dzintars.
“It looks like New Unity and Union of Greens and Farmers are caught in bed and everything is obvious, but they say in all seriousness that it’s not,” Dzintars added.
He also said the NA could not fulfill its promises to voters by working in a single administration with the Progressives due to “huge differences.”
“The core values, the basic orientation, are incompatible with the fundamental values of the National Alliance,” said Dzintars. Antoina tenaševa of the Progressives also told Latvian Radio Tuesday that National Alliance collaboration was improbable.