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1990 Latvian Supreme Soviet election

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Elections in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

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LITHUANIA: VILNIUS: 10TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY

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1991 - USSR - Supreme Soviet Rejects Gorbachev's Proposed New "Union of Sovereign States" - 4/9/91

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EBU LT Restoration

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LRT EBU January 13 commemoration

Parliamentary elections were held in the Latvian SSR on 18 March 1990. It was the first free parliamentary election in Latvia since 1931 and saw 201 deputies elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR, 170 of them in the first round. Run-off elections were held on 25 March, 1 April and 29 April. The Popular Front of Latvia won over two-thirds of the vote. Unlike its Estonian and Lithuanian counterparts, the Latvian Communist Party did not separate from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, on 3 May 1990, the new Supreme Soviet re-elected the Communist Party member Anatolijs Gorbunovs as its chairman, effectively the leader of Latvia. He subsequently resigned from the party, and a year later the Communist Party was banned by the parliament.
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