RIGA, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Latvian prime minister-designate Krisjanis Karins announced on Monday that he had succeeded in forming a five-party center-right government, which will be put to a vote in parliament this week.
At a meeting with President Raimonds Vejonis on Monday, Karins informed about the composition of his cabinet and presented three key documents approved by the five coalition partners -- a declaration setting out his government's action plan, a coalition agreement and a fiscal discipline pact.
The Latvian parliament is expected to convene for an extraordinary sitting this Wednesday to vote on the Baltic country's new government which has been formed after more than three months of negotiations.
After the meeting with the president, Karins told reporters that he counted on a safe majority of lawmakers to vote in favor of his government.
As recently as last Friday it was still not clear whether KPV LV party would join the Karins-led coalition as the fifth partner after four MPs of the party's faction in parliament announced they would vote against the new government.
That group included former prime minister-designate Aldis Gobzems, whose attempt to form a government failed in December, and Didzis Smits, whom KPV LV party had nominated for the post of economics minister.
On Monday, however, KPV LV voted to join the Karins-led government and pledged it the support of 11 KPV LV parliamentarians, which means that the new coalition has 61 votes in Latvia's 100-seat parliament.
Latvia's new government coalition will include five of the seven political parties represented in parliament, which are Karins' center-right New Unity, the New Conservative Party, KPV LV, the right-wing National Alliance and the liberal alliance For Development/For.
