Boris Leonidovich Tsilevitch (russian: Борис Леонидович Цилевич, lv, Boriss Cilevičs; born March 26, 1956) is a Latvian politician. He was born in Daugavpils. He is a member of Harmony and a deputy of the Saeima. He began his current term in parliament on October 17, 2011. From May to July 2004 Tsilevitch briefly served as

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

between the accession of Latvia and the first direct election of Latvian MEPs. During that time, he was a member of the

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. In addition to his role in parliament, Tsilevitch has been serving as member of the Latvian delegation to the

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since 2011. As member of Harmony, he is part of the

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. He is currently the chairperson of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the

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; a member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by

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(Monitoring Committee); a member of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination; a member of the Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights; and a member Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities. Alongside

Kerstin Lundgren Kerstin Margareta Lundgren (born 1955) is a Swedish Centre Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2002 she is taking up seat number 2 for Stockholm County's constituancy. Since the September 24, 2018, Speaker of the Riks ...

of Sweden, he serves as the Assembly's co-rapporteur on

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.Georgia: co-rapporteurs welcome willingness to seek Venice Commission’s opinion on Constitutional Court amendments

, press release of May 10, 2016.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20090331121310/http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/AssemblyList/AL_MemberDetails.asp?MemberID=4135 *http://www.cvk.lv/cgi-bin/wdbcgiw/base/saeima9.cvkand9.kandid2?NR1=&cbutton=78106837818

External links

Personal website

1956 births Living people Politicians from Daugavpils Jewish Latvian politicians Latvian people of Russian-Jewish descent National Harmony Party politicians Social Democratic Party "Harmony" politicians Deputies of the 7th Saeima Deputies of the 8th Saeima Deputies of the 9th Saeima Deputies of the 10th Saeima Deputies of the 11th Saeima Deputies of the 12th Saeima Deputies of the 13th Saeima Minority rights activists University of Latvia alumni {{Latvia-politician-stub