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Do we like Evika Siliņa?

Our score: 5 out of 10. Too little verified to say more: a political fall in 2026, but no harmful words or acts of her own found, and we couldn't check her record on LGBTQ+ issues.

Evika Siliņa became Latvia's prime minister in September 2023, when parliament approved her government. She was the second woman to hold the job, and she came to it from New Unity after earlier roles in the State Chancellery and as welfare minister.

Her exit was messy. In May 2026 she asked her defence minister, Andris Sprūds of the Progressives, to resign after Ukrainian drones strayed into Latvian airspace, and wanted a military colonel, Raivis Melnis, to take the job instead of a Progressives pick.

The Progressives leader, Andris Šuvajevs, said the coalition agreement had been thrown in the trash. Siliņa handed her resignation to the president on 14 May and blamed opponents, saying they chose a political crisis, so where you land depends on whether you read it as a defence-minister call or a coalition blow-up.

Later in May she said the coalition cracks had started in autumn 2025, after a political fight over the Istanbul Convention. That's a sign LGBTQ+ and women's rights issues sat at the heart of her government's troubles, but we couldn't open the reporting to see exactly what she said or did, so we won't guess.

On the harm check, nothing harmful in her own words turned up in the little we could read, and she led a government in which that convention fight happened. On the good stuff, honestly, we found little verified beyond her career. That's the whole list, and it's a gap, not a clean bill of health.