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Karlis Sadurskis, the chairman of the parliamentary committee on budget and financial (taxes), has been proposed as the education and science minister. The Finance Ministry's parliamentary secretary, Arvils Aseradens, has been nominated as the economics minister and the vice-prime minister. Janis Reirs, the finance minister in the outgoing Cabinet, has been selected as the would-be welfare minister.

The Unity's parliamentary faction on Monday morning approved two candidates per ministerial post, leaving the final decision to the party’s board.

Speaking to the press after the board meeting, the Unity’s leader, Solvita Aboltina, said that the board had approved the three candidates with a very large majority of votes.

The Unity board on Monday also nominated for the work in the new Cabinet two of the Unity’s ministers in the outgoing government – Rihards Kozlovskis and Edgars Rinkevics, who are to continue as the interior minister and the foreign minister respectively.

Prime minister-designate Maris Kucinskis from the Union of Greens and Farmers in principle approves of the candidates to economics, welfare and education ministers nominated by the center-right Unity party on Monday.

Nevertheless, he will still be meeting with the candidates to determine whether they shared the same ideas about the objectives of each ministry in question, Kucinskis told LETA.

The Unity’s choice of ministerial candidates had held no surprises for him, the prime minister-designate said.

Karlis Sadurskis has already served as the education and science minister in the past and had voiced some ideas about the ministry’s future work already last Friday, Kucinskis said. As to Arvils Aseradens as the future economics minister, business organizations had indicated to the prime minister-designate that he would be an acceptable candidate. Janis Reirs, the finance minister in the outgoing government, also seems relatively well-suited for the position of the welfare minister, considering his large experience in the work on the budget matters, Kucinskis said.