Solvita Āboltiņa

Solvita Āboltiņa ( Mellupe; born 19 February 1963) is a Latvian politician who was Speaker of the Saeima from 2010 until 2014.

Early life
Solvita Āboltiņa graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 5, a German language immersion school in 1981, and from the Faculty of Law at the Latvian State University in 1986.

Political career
Āboltiņa entered politics in 2001. She became a deputy of the Saeima on November 7, 2006. In November 2014 after a parliamentary election she was replaced as the speaker and appointed chairwoman of the National Security Committee of the Saeima. She was struck off the Unity list of candidates by electors at the 2014 election. As a result, she did not return to the Saeima and Unity member Jānis Junkurs forfeited his mandate to allow the party President to continue to sit in parliament. At the emergency congress of the "Unity" party on June 4, 2016, she no longer applied for the position of chairman of the board. In November 2017, she was expelled from the party "for disregarding the party's internal discipline, deliberately undermining the authority of the party board and participating in behind-the-scenes negotiations with the aim of discrediting the process of selecting the minister of economy". At the end of the year, the mandate of the deputy was suspended.

Foreign Honours

 * 🇪🇪 Estonia: Recipient First Class of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (05.06.2012, serie 1003 - decision n° 99)