Ä¢irts Valdis Kristovskis

Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis ( born February 19, 1962 in Ventspils) is a Latvian politician. He was from November 2010 to October 2011 Foreign Minister of his country in the first government of Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis. Previously Kristovkis had served in various cabinets as interior minister and defense minister.

Biography

Kristovskis visited the Sekundarschuke # 1 in Ventspils and then studied until 1984 civil engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Riga. In 1998, he earned a law degree Magisterabschkuss, 2002 with a PhD in political science from the same university at the University of Latvia.

Kristovskis ' political activism began in the 1980s in the environmental movement and Latvijas Tautas Fronte in Ventspils. He was elected to the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR in 1989 in the Ventspils City Council, 1990. As of 1993 Kristovskis was four times successively elected to the Latvian parliament, the Saeima, 1993 and 1995 for the party Latvijas Cels, 1998 and 2002 for his new party Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK. From 2004 he was Member of the European Parliament, but lost his seat in the European elections of 2009. Thereafter, he was elected to the City Council of Riga, where he led the opposition.

After disputes within Tēvzemei ​​un Brīvībai / LNNK Kristovskis came out in 2008 and founded with other Pilsoniskā Savieniba. Pilsoniskā Savieniba went in the elections to the 10th Saeima 2010, the electoral alliance Vienotība one that could unite the most votes and strongest force in Parliament. On 3 November 2010 was Kristovskis Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis. Just a few days after taking office to Kristovski had to face a no-confidence motion, after an exchange of letters had become acquainted with a doctor that contained a perceived anti-Russian statements of the doctor. The application was rejected by 51 votes of the ruling coalition votes to 36, from the ranks of Saskaņas Centrs and Par Labu Latviju. In the elections to the 11th Saeima 2011 Kristovskis received by the voters most negative strokes, slid so of course one of the Riga Vienotība - dial list to the last place and received a mandate in parliament.

Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.

Private and Awards

Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis is married to actress Ilze Rudolf Kristovskis. Him the Three - Star Order, third class and the West Hard - orders were awarded.