Ramona Petraviča (born 25 September 1967 in

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) is a Latvian politician and financier, who is a member of the

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and who between 23 January 2019 and 3 June 2021 served as in the Kariņš cabinet led by Prime Minister

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Biography

Petraviča graduated from

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with a degree in chemical technology in 1992. Before being elected to the Saeima in 2018, Petraviča was the finance director of the Saldus-based logistics company SIA ''Monēta'' and, since 2017, a member of the Saldus Municipality Council. She was elected in

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to the Saeima as an MP, and, after losing her ministerial portfolio, returned to parliament. In 2022 she quit the For a Humane Latvia party and later joined the

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party of oligarch

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, being re-elected in the

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later that year.

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