LOCAL ELECTIONS SE HOLD IN LATVIA








RIGA, March 11.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Anatoli Baranovski).  The
local elections are held today in Latvia.  The voters must elect 552
bodies of autoadministration:  consultings of district and
legislatives assemblees of city and district.

The 938 polling stations opened has 7 H, standard time.  According to
the data of the central electoral Commission, the participation is
rather large and the elections are deroulent calmly.

Only the citizens of Latvia take part in the elections.  Nearly a
quarter of its population - 540 000 let us non-Lettons, former
citizens of the USSR - are deprive of the voting rights.  With the
election day before, the Parliament letton has again rejete the
proposal of the opposition of left to grant to the not-citizens the
right to take part in the local elections.