(AP-ANSA) - HELSINKI - An opposition party catering to the
Latvia's large ethnic Russian minority is poised to win the
Baltic nation's parliamentary election but it's expected to face
difficulties in forming a coalition government. Voters in
Latvia, which is a member of the European Union and NATO, chose
Saturday from more than 1,400 candidates and 16 parties to fill
the country's 100-seat parliament. With over 95 percent of votes
counted, preliminary results Sunday from Latvia's electoral
committee showed the left-wing Harmony party was leading with 20
percent support. The populist KPV party and the anti-corruption
New Conservative Party were in second and third place with 14.1
percent and 13.6 percent of the votes respectively. Prime
Minister Maris Kucinskis' centrist Union of Greens and Farmers
was in the sixth place with 10 percent support. (AP-ANSA).
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