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The partners intend to continue negotiations to sort out their differences.

PM nominee Maris Kucinskis (Greens/Farmers) said that the disagreements were not about the content of the text but about its wording. An agreement on the government declaration’s text has yet to be reached with the National Alliance.

This is the only issue that still has to be agreed in the declaration. "I am against categorical wording or strict statements that we will not be doing what nobody offers us to do," Kucinskis told journalists. He indicated that he does not want the government declaration to elaborate on hypothetical situations and that the coalition partners are unanimously against the admission of more refugees than Latvia has already promised to admit, but that the disagreements are about how to say it in the declaration.

In one of the declaration's latest versions it was proposed to state that the Latvian government will take a stand against a mandatory quota mechanism for the migrants' distribution across EU member states. It was planned already earlier to coordinate this formulation among the National Alliance, Foreign Ministry and Interior Ministry.

The coalition partners that are forming Latvia’s new government have defined economic growth, education and science reforms, reforms in the health sector, national security and identity, demography, support to families and social security as the main priorities.

Kucinskis expects Saeima to approve the new government in a vote on February 11.