Latvia: State support for political parties to be frozen in 2025

The Latvian government will freeze public funding for political parties in 2025, Prime Minister Evika Silina announced, LSM reports. She said that coalition parties had approved the proposal to halt the indexation of state support for parties. The government’s austerity measures have required ministries to cut spending in the public sector. Altogether 12 political parties received a total of EUR 5,675,351 from the state budget in 2023, Baltic News Network reported.