Andrejs Elksniņš

Andrejs Elksniņš
Mayor of Daugavpils
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2021
Preceded byIgors Prelatovs
In office
17 January 2019 – 11 June 2020
Preceded byRihards Eigims
Succeeded byIgors Prelatovs
In office
26 June 2017 – 2 September 2017
Preceded byJānis Lāčplēsis
Succeeded byRihards Eigims
Personal details
Born (1982-12-13) 13 December 1982
Rīga, Latvian SSR, USSR
Political partyGo, Latgale!
Other political
affiliations		Harmony (2011–2023)
Alma materLatvian Police Academy
ProfessionLawyer, investigator

Andrejs Elksniņš (born 1982) is a Latvian politician and the current Mayor of Daugavpils. He was a deputy of the 12th Saeima and a long-standing member of the Social Democratic Party "Harmony" until 2023. He is of Latvian and Russian descent.

Elksniņš started his career as a lawyer, before entering national politics in time for the 2011 Latvian parliamentary election. Elksniņš took office as Mayor of Daugavpils, the second largest city in the country, on 26 June 2017[1] but was replaced by Rihards Eigims after just two months in office on September 2.[2] After the coalition led by Eigims collapsed on 22 November 2018, Elksniņš was re-elected as mayor on 17 January 2019[3][4], but again removed from office on June 11, 2020. The city was then led by Igors Prelatovs, until Elksniņš was reelected for a third time and approved as mayor after the 2021 Latvian municipal elections on July 1.

In January 2023, Elksniņš left the Harmony party. In 2024, he established and became the leader of the Daugavpils-based localist political party Go, Latgale!.

References

  1. ^ Opposition MP takes over as mayor of Daugavpils. Public Broadcasting of Latvia, 26 June 2017. Retrieved: 6 September 2017
  2. ^ Daugavpils mayor toppled. Public Broadcasting of Latvia, 2 September 2017. Retrieved: 6 September 2017
  3. ^ "Elksniņš returns as Daugavpils mayor". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Prominent Harmony politician preparing to launch new political force". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.


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