Scandal in the Jelgava County Council: Councilors will decide on the dismissal of Lasmanis

A meeting of the Jelgava County Council has been announced today at 4 p.m., where it is planned to consider the request of seven deputies to remove the chairman of the municipality Madara Lasmani (LA), according to the announcement published on the municipality’s website.

Certain local government politicians and officials have demanded to evaluate Lasmanis’s actions, while directing the session in the Budget Commission, he addressed the feet of a woman. The executive director of the municipality, Līga Lonerte (LZS), has invited the members of the municipality to evaluate, in her opinion, the violation of ethics in the actions of the council chairman, by sending them a video from the commission’s meeting on March 13. The executive director told the deputies that, in her opinion, significant violations can be seen in Lasmanis’ actions. She turned to the deputies after the alarm raised by the administration employees.

The request was signed by four deputies of the Latvian Farmers’ Union – deputy chairman of the city council Ilze Vītola, Lolita Duge, Juris Lavenieks and Juris Razživins, and three deputies elected from the list of the Association of Regions of Latvia – Dainis Liepiņš, Vidmants Rinkuns and Dina Tauriņa.

In such a case, the chairman of the council must call an extraordinary meeting of the council within ten days or include this issue in the agenda of the regular council meeting.