Latvian reports: Experts doubtful about next candidate for constitutional court

Text of report by Latvian newspaper Diena on 10 January Professionalism versus a person who is needed by the governing coalition. Despite excuses made by politicians, that is the unwritten criterion to evaluate candidates, and that is often used when the governing elite divides up jobs related to national governance. There are fears now that this secret criterion is being used to choose candidates for the important job of a justice on the Constitutional Court (ST), say many lawyers...