RIGA, Latvia — Voting stations have opened in Latvia's snap parliamentary election that could see a pro-Russia party emerge the winner for the first time in 20 years since the Baltic state restored independence.
Polls indicate that the leftist Harmony Center representing Latvia’s large ethnic Russian minority could muster up to one-third of the seats in the nation’s legislature.
However, two center-right parties in second and third place in pre-election surveys are likely to join forces to prevent the leftists from gaining the upper hand in coalition negotiations.
The election Saturday is being held after the previous legislature was dissolved in a nationwide referendum in July.
