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Andris Ārgalis (born 18 August 1944) is a Latvian politician. He was the mayor of
Riga Riga ( ) is the capital, Primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city of Latvia. Home to 591,882 inhabitants (as of 2025), the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population. The population of Riga Planni ...
from 2000 to 2001. Andris Ārgalis graduated from the Latvian Academy of Agriculture in 1969. In 1997 he was elected to the
Riga City Council Riga City Council () is the government of the city of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Its meeting place is in the Riga Town Hall (''Rīgas rātsnams)'' at the Town Hall Square (''Rātslaukums'') in the very heart of Riga. The Riga City Council con ...
as representative of the
For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (, abbreviated to TB/LNNK) was a free-market, national conservative political party in Latvia. In 2011, it dissolved and merged into the National Alliance (Latvia), National Alliance. The party was founded from sm ...
, a Latvian
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party. In 2000 and 2001 he was the Riga City Council Chairman (mayor). In a poll conducted in December 2000, he was the third most popular politician in Latvia with a rating 35.4 points on a scale from -100 to +100, after President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga with 54.6 points and Bank of Latvia President Einars Repše with 52.5 points. In 2002 he left the City Council Members' office, and was elected a member of Parliament. In 2005 he resigned from Parliament and was re-elected to the Riga City Council, became a deputy mayor and chairman of the board of the Free port of Riga, a post traditionally held by the mayor.''13 March 2005 local elections in Latvia''
Centre de données socio-politiques. Retrieved 11 March 2009.


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1944 births Living people People from Valmiera Municipality For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK politicians People's Party (Latvia) politicians Deputies of the 8th Saeima Mayors of Riga Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies alumni {{latvia-politician-stub