Gaidis Bērziņš (born 20 October 1970 in

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

) is a

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

n politician, lawyer, and university lecturer in law. He is former

Minister for Justice of Latvia The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Latvia, established in 1918, is the leading state governing body in the field of justice and is the supreme authority for subordinate public administration institutions. At the political level, it is ru ...

and co-chair of the National Alliance, along with

Raivis Dzintars Raivis Dzintars (born 25 November 1982) is a Latvian right-wing politician and chairman of the national-conservative National Alliance party. He has previously served as the party's co-chairman alongside Gaidis Bērziņš. Born in Riga, he was ...

Politics

After the 2006 election, he was appointed the Minister for Justice, taking the office on 7 November 2006 and holding it until 12 March 2009. Bērziņš was elected to the 2010 election as one of two

For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK ( lv, Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/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. The party was founded ...

representatives on the joint National Alliance list that the party shared with

All For Latvia! All for Latvia! ( lv, Visu Latvijai!) was a right-wing ethnic nationalist political party in Latvia led by Raivis Dzintars and . Formed in 2000, it entered a right-wing nationalist coalition in 2010, and ultimately merged with the For Fatherland ...

. When the National Alliance became a unitary party, Bērziņš became co-chair, along with Raivis Dzintars. The 2011 election saw the National Alliance gain six seats, after which the party formed a centre-right coalition with

Zatlers' Reform Party The Reform Party ( lv, Reformu partija), until April 2012 known as Zatlers' Reform Party ( lv, Zatlera Reformu partija, links=no, ZRP), was a centre-right political party in Latvia founded by former President Valdis Zatlers on 23 July 2011. It wo ...

, and

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. Bērziņš was appointed Minister for Justice once again. He took office on the 25 October 2011.

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1970 births Living people Lawyers from Riga For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK politicians National Alliance (Latvia) politicians Ministers of Justice of Latvia Deputies of the 10th Saeima Deputies of the 11th Saeima Deputies of the 12th Saeima Politicians from Riga 20th-century Latvian lawyers {{Latvia-politician-stub