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De iure continuty of Republic of Latvia is a view which helds that incorporation of Latvia in Soviet Union was illegal and therefore Republic of Latvia never cased to exist de iure. It is believed that in 1940 Soviet Union occupied Latvia and staged mock election of the "People's Saeima of Latvia". The legality of this parliament and its decisions is questioned, because altough Soviet Union considered that the constitution of Latvia was nullified by Kārlis Ulmanis' coup d'etat of 15 May 1934 and never formally annulled it, Latvian lawyers and historians observe that the constitution was still in effect, since Ulmanis' had merely assigned the functions of the Saeima to the cabinet and had not cancel any part of the constitution, and that the People's Saeima was elected in accordance with the constitution of Russian SFSR, not in accordance with that of Latvia, and thus it had no legal rights to legislate, and by declaring accession to the Soviet Union, it broke the first article of the constitution of Latvia. On 4 May 1990 the Supreme council of LSSR declared Latvia independent and adopted articles 1, 2, 3 and 6 of the constitution of 1922. The rest of the constitution remained in abeyance until it was reviewed to fit the modern situation, thus the constitution was fully reinforced by 5th Saeima on 6 July 1993 in accordance to 14 article of law "On organisation of job of Supreme Council of Republic of Latvia"