President Valdis Zatlers of Latvia
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Valdis Zatlers is an orthopedic surgeon, who graduated from the Institute of Medicine in Riga in 1979.
Valdis Zatlers was a board member of the Popular Front of Latvia in 1988-1989.
In 2003, Zatlers was a subject of an investigation by KNAB anti-corruption office.
Valdis Zatlers is married to Lilita Zatlere and has three children.
Like Vike-Freiberga, Zatlers comes to the presidency with little political experience.
Zatlers has been head of Latvia's State Traumatology and Orthopedics Hospital since 1994.
Patients not only tell me about their ailments but also about the pain they experience in everyday life," Zatlers was quoted by the Independent Morning daily as saying ahead of the election.
Zatlers has denied any wrongdoing, but Latvia's anti-corruption bureau has launched a probe and he has come under fire from the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.
Zatlers had a clear edge over Endzins, who was nominated by the opposition Harmony Centre party, which has just 17 seats in parliament.
Latvia is interested in deepening and strengthening its relations with friendly Armenia, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers said at his meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward.
President Valdis Zatlers said Wednesday he would disband the legislature by March 31 unless lawmakers agree to a series of reforms to help restore.
President Valdis Zatlers said he would disband the legislature by March 31 unless lawmakers agree to a series of reforms to help restore political and.
In his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Jan 13, President Valdis Zatlers said that the biggest mistakes his country had made over the five years since its accession to the European Union.
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President Valdis Zatlers has stepped up criticism of the government and Parliament in recent months, though he has stopped short of threatening to.
President Valdis Zatlers has stepped up criticism of the government in recent months, but he has stopped short of threatening to dissolve the.
Latvian President Valdis Zatlers has recently signed amendments to the Administrative Violations Code, previously approved by parliament, which raised fines for.
The president from the zoo has already said he would not dissolve the parliament.
Speaking towards the end of his first official trip to Washington, Zatlers said the two countries should have been offered a so-called Membership Action Plan (MAP) to join NATO at the trans-Atlantic alliance's summit in Bucharest this month.
Like Vike-Freiberga -- a psychology professor when she was elected for the first time in 1999 -- Zatlers comes to the presidency with little political experience.
Zatlers received 58 votes in the 100-seat Saeima, seven more than the 51 required.
Zatlers is chairman of the board of the Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopedics in Riga since 1994.
President Valdis Zatlers said he would disband the legislature by March 31 unless lawmakers agree to a series.
President Zatlers said that Latvia is interested in strengthening.
President Valdis Zatlers said Tuesday night's violence, in which youths attacked parliament and then battled police with stones.
President Valdis Zatlers said Wednesday he would disband the legislature by March 31 unless lawmakers agree to a.
Dr Zatlers was at least good at something: he admits collecting.
The 52-year-old Zatlers has been criticized since admitting to not paying taxes.
Valdis Zatlers was politically unknown until his candidacy.
But the public outcry was relentless, and even President Valdis Zatlers said that Ms Gudele, 43, should resign.
Valdis Zatlers was born on Tuesday, March 22, 1955 in Riga and he is a famous head of state from Latvia.
The information box for "President" Zatlers says that he is the "incumbent" president of Latvia and that he "assumed" office on "7 July 2007.
Valdis Zatlers expressed his gratitude to the leader of our country for the invitation to visit Uzbekistan and noted that the Latvian side attached great importance to this visit.
Dr Zatlers was at least good at something: he admits collecting thousands of dollars in tips from grateful patients, on which he is now hurrying to pay tax.
Zatlers received 58 votes, while only 39 MPs in the 100-member Latvian parliament voted for his opponent, lawyer Aivars Endzins.
I am honored to receive the confidence, and I promise that I will work in the interests of the entire Latvian nation, Zatlers said in an address to parliament.
Zatlers was nominated for the Latvian presidency by the four coalition parties the conservative People's Party, the nationalist alliance For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (TB/LNNK), the bloc of Latvia's First Party and Latvia's Way (LPP/LC) the Greens and Farmers Union (ZZS.
Zatlers has graduated from the Riga Medical Institute and has been heading the main accident surgery hospital in Riga since 1994.
Zatlers said Vike-Freibergas advice was worth gold.
Zatlers was nominated for the Latvian presidency by the four coalition parties the conservative Peoples Party, the nationalist alliance For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK, the Latvias First Party and Latvias Way election bloc and the Greens and Farmers Union.
Zatlers is due to choose his cabinet from among those advisors to Vike-Freiberga that decide to stay and any other people he deems qualified for the high level positions.
Otherwise, the schism in society that Zatlers says he wants to bridge will only deepen.
The time for submitting candidatures to the presidential post in Latvia has expired.
Zatlers is a compromise candidature between the ruling coalition parties, as none of candidatures previously proposed by members of the parliamentary majority was granted support by all partners in the Cabinet of Ministers.
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Valdis Zatlers, elected President of the Republic of LatviaCorinne DeloyTranslated by Helen LevyAnalysisD-7Results -Valdis Zatlers was elected President of the Republic of Latvia on 31st May by the members of the Saeima, the only Chamber in Parliament.
Valdis Zatlers is 52 years old, a graduate of the Medical School in Riga (1979) and director of the capital's Casualty and Orthopaedic Hospital since 1994.
Valdis Zatlers was suspended from his function as director during the inquiry which in the end revealed nothing illegal about his activities.
Zatlers was born in March 22, 1955 in Latvia's capital city of Riga.
Zatlers joined the Latvian National Front in the years of 1988-89, as Latviastrived for its independence and also actively took part in the reconstruction of Latvia's Medical Association.
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Friends who knew him at the time said Zatlers was worried he may have contracted a serious illness as a result of exposure to radiation.
In the aftermath of the Jan 13 riot in the heart of RÄ«ga, President Valdis Zatlers has issued an ultimatum to the parliament: Pass a constitutional amendment allowing for the popular recall of the Saeima, or he will call for its dissolution.
Latvian President Valdis Zatlers has accredited two new ambassadors and said farewell to US.
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