Latvia taps centre-right candidate to form government

FILE PHOTO: Newly-elected Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics speaks during a press conference in Riga, Latvia May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/file photo

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Latvian president Edgars Rinkevics on Thursday tasked Evika Silina of the centre-right New Unity party with forming the next government following the resignation of Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins.

Silina, a former lawyer who was welfare minister in the outgoing government, still needs to win a confidence vote in a fractured parliament, where her party commands 26 votes.