Andris Ārgalis
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Andris Ārgalis graduated from the Latvian Academy of Agriculture in 1969.
In 1997 he was elected to the Riga City Council as representative of the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK, a Latvian nationalist party. In 2000 and 2001 he was the Riga City Council Chairman (mayor). In a poll conducted in December 2000, he was the third most popular politician in Latvia with a rating 35.4 points on a scale from -100 to +100, after President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga with 54.6 points and Bank of Latvia President Einars Repše with 52.5 points.[1]
In 2002 he left the City Council Members' office, and was elected a member of Parliament.[2] In 2005 he resigned from Parliament and was re-elected to the Riga City Council, became a deputy mayor and chairman of the board of the Free port of Riga, a post traditionally held by the mayor.[3]
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- ↑ News from Latvia: The latest pollsTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Central Europe Review. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
- ↑ REPUBLIC OF LATVIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 5 OCTOBER 2002 Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
- ↑ 13 March 2005 local elections in Latvia Template:Webarchive Centre de données socio-politiques. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
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