Media-hostile lawyer’s efforts to form Latvian government faltering

Efforts to form a Latvian government by a media-hostile lawyer from an anti-establishment party appear to be faltering.

Talks among six parties with seats in the Latvian parliament or Saeima have been going on since after November 26, when President Raimonds Vējonis nominated Aldis Gobzems, of the Who Owns The State? (KPVLV) party to form a government after an earlier effort by Jānis Bordāns of the New Conservative Party (JKP) failed. But with a December 10 deadline looming, the sides appeared split on a number of…