RIGA, January 9 (RIA Novosti, Yury Guralnik) - The leader of Latvia's Socialist Party, Juris Bojars, asked the Constitutional Court Monday to lift the ban on having former KGB officers and Communist Party Central Committee members elected to parliament.
The court is now looking into the compliance of the ban with Latvia's Constitution and international legal documents.
Former KGB officers and Communist Party Central Committee members are not allowed to be elected to parliament or take government posts in Latvia that regained independence after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.
Bojars said he had quit his job at the KGB 33 years ago, and his KGB record must not affect his civil freedoms in modern Latvia.
