GEMEINDEWAHLEN IN LETTLAND








RIGA, 11 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Anatoli
Baranowski /. in Lettland today the gemeindewahlen take place.  New
compositions of 552 organs of the autonomy are selected:  Municipality
district advice, city and Kreisdumas.

The tuning in 938 polling stations began at 7.00 o'clock local time.
According to specification of the head offices electoral committee the
tuning takes place quite actively and in calm atmosphere.

In the elections only the citizens Lettlands take part.  Almost a
quarter of its population - 540,000 Nichtletten, former citizens of
the USSR - have no right to vote.  Briefly before the elections the
lettische parliament rejected a further mark the suggestion of the
opposition from the left to grant to the Nichtbuergern the right to
participate in the local elections.