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Riga, Feb 3 (LETA) - On Monday, at the beginning of an extraordinary session of the Jelgava Regional Council, the chairman of the council Uldis Ainars (New Unity), who was elected to the post in September last year, resigned.

At the start of an extraordinary session of the council, which is due to consider draft decisions on the development of public infrastructure, Ainars announced that he had submitted his resignation to the council. He did not give a reason for his resignation.

As the sitting continued, the deputy chairwoman, Dina Tauriņa (Latvia's Association of Regions), took over the chair of the meeting at Ainars' request.

The municipality informed that Taurina will ensure the continuity of the municipality's activities until the election of a new chairperson.

At the end of the council meeting, Ainars explained that his aim in taking up the position of the council chairman and taking into account the limited term until the 2025 municipal elections was to balance the budget of the Jelgava region.

According to Ainars, the preparation phase of the 2025 budget is now over and it has started to move towards the finance committee. "I have to say that the difficulties of balancing revenue and expenditure for this year have been overcome, which is why I took this decision at this point," the councilor stated.

Ainars estimated that the budget will be approved by the council by February 19.

Ainars was elected chairman of Jelgava Rounty Council on September 20 2024 after the local council had been working without a chairman following the resignation of Madars Lasmanis (For Latvia's Development) in April 2024.