Andris Bērziņš Raimonds Vējonis Indirect presidential elections were held in Latvia on 3 June 2015.
[1] Raimonds Vējonis of the Green Party was elected President and took office on 8 July.
[3][4] The ruling coalition failed to agree on a joint candidate, with the Union of Greens and Farmers nominating Defence Minister Raimonds Vējonis (who also had the support of most of Unity's MPs), while the National Alliance nominated European Court of Justice judge Egils Levits (who also had the support of Unity's Lolita Čigāne and For Latvia from the Heart's Ringolds Balodis).
In the fourth round, the only candidates remaining were Egils Levits and Raimonds Vējonis.
[7] Vējonis stated that "I would like to improve relations with Russia... but while Russian rockets and heavy weapons remain in Ukraine, that's not really possible".