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The fee accredited the amendments to the regulation at present for consideration within the ultimate studying. The ultimate resolution on these points shall be taken by the Saeima.
The unique wording stays within the draft regulation, which nonetheless offers for the addition of Varakļani county to Madona county.
Though beforehand the fee had conceptually supported the rejection of the merger of huge cities and neighboring counties, at present the particular related proposals didn’t obtain the help of the bulk. In a lot of the votes, the opinion of the MPs was cut up in half, with 5 voting “for” and 5 “towards” or “abstaining”.
Within the earlier and at present’s assembly, the Fee didn’t help any of the proposals for the restoration of any earlier counties or the creation of a brand new county.
Because of this, the proposals for the renewal of Carnikava, Babīte, Kandava, Ikšķile, Ilūkste and Ozolnieku counties have been rejected, in addition to the proposal for the creation of the North Kurzeme county.
Deputies additionally didn’t help the proposal so as to add Garkalne Parish to Ādaži County.
On the identical time, there may be nonetheless a chance for Đadaži and Ropaži counties to discover a consensus on whether or not and the way Garkalne parish needs to be divided by autumn – it’s not identified whether or not such an settlement shall be reached.
Initially of the fee session, the standards for administrative territories proposed by the Authorized Workplace on Tuesday have been mentioned. Nevertheless, at present, at the least on the stage of the fee’s selections, they have been now not so related, as a result of opposite to what was conceptually determined earlier, the fee didn’t help the proposals for canceling the merger of huge cities and neighboring counties from 2029.
Within the opening dialogue of the session, the Speaker of the Saeima Daiga Mieriņa (ZZS) typically positively assessed the standards proposed by the Authorized Workplace on Tuesday, however on the identical time supplied to take away the situation on the variety of inhabitants from them, in order that it could not forestall Ventspils county from remaining as a separate municipality.
The consultant of the authorized workplace defined that the inhabitants rule can’t be faraway from the proposal to be able to protect the which means of the standards proposal.
Even earlier than the assembly, it was clear that the fee wouldn’t help the cancellation of the merger of huge cities and neighboring counties, MP Ingmārs Līdaka (AS) additionally requested a couple of answer for Ventspils county in reference to the proposed standards.
The consultant of the Ministry of Environmental Safety and Regional Growth (VARAM) said that VARAM believes that there isn’t a must outline standards within the regulation, as this could primarily imply a brand new kind of administrative territorial reform.
The primary deputy chairman of the Ventspils metropolis council Guntis Blumbergs (“For Latvia and Ventspils”) proposed to incorporate the world within the standards of the regulation, amongst different issues, considering that the world of the Ventspils area is over 2400 sq. kilometers. Blumbergs identified that in a state of affairs the place the town of Ventspils has 22,000 residents with the fitting to vote, however only some hundred within the bigger populated areas of the county, within the case of the merger of the 2 municipalities, the county “truly ends”.
2024-06-13 04:04:05