We are for social solidarity, equal treatment of all the residents of the city, irrespective of their mother tongue, ethnic or social origin. <\/p>\n
We want the honest people to be elected to Riga City Council, the people who are ready to work for the welfare of the society, the people who have not stained their good name in any illegal deals or illegal privatization.<\/p>\n
We stand up for the improvement of living standards for all the residents of Riga.<\/p>\n
We are against unlimited power of the officials; the officials must serve the city, not vice versa. <\/p>\n
We are against wasting of credits and municipal taxes for inexpedient and ungrounded purchases of municipalities.<\/p>\n
We are for the preservation of national minorities\u2019 schools, for the right to use the Russian language in the state and municipal institutions, for the preservation in Riga of cultural monuments from all nations and times.<\/p>\n
We strive for assuring food, safety, and warmth for everyone.<\/p>\n
It is necessary to support those who can make their living and help those who cannot. <\/p>\n
We commit ourselves:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To create new working places;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To favour business development;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To ensure the most efficient use of municipal property;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To use the criterion of professionalism as the basis for evaluating municipal employees;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To fight effectively against corruption;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To improve the overall plan for the city development, paying special attention to the complex micro-district development and the preservation of historical buildings;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To use most expediently and purposefully the privatization, development, and other funds;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To back check the legality of the privatization of the major industrial objects, land and real estate;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To create accessible municipal housing resources, and to finish the construction of municipal housing for that purpose;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To increase the municipal expenditures for social assistance;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To not accept the eviction of tenants, especially poor and socially unprotected families and families with children from their apartments, without allocation of other accommodation;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To abolish ungrounded limitations of alternative heating systems;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To provide every tenant with an opportunity to settle accounts with public utilities\u2019 services without mediators;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To work out a mechanism for compensation of health service expenses for the poor residents;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To carry out regular medical inspections and preventive vaccination of schoolchildren for the means of the municipality;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To strive for compulsory educational institutions for all the children of school age;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To increase additional payments to teachers\u2019 wages, to grant additional means for children and youth activities in their spare time;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To support educational institutions of minorities;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To support culture and sport programs, municipal culture centres;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To prevent the duplication of the functions of the State and municipal police and the violations, connected with the lack of coordination between different police units;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 To ensure regular patrol by the municipal police on the city streets.<\/p>\n
We believe that:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 The work of all the municipal and State institutions shall be based on the principle of service in the best interest of the client;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 The summaries of the budgets of municipal institutions and detailed audit reports must be available for the public;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 The municipal property should be managed by professional specialists and certified firms;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 We want to see fast, coordinated, and professional actions of the law enforcement institutions in response to people\u2019s applications;<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Municipalities must provide schools with modern educational tools, computers, and access to the Internet.<\/p>\n
We shall optimize the work of the municipal institutions by simplifying the bureaucratic procedures.<\/p>\n
We shall not allow the increases in rent, public utilities\u2019 payments, nor transport charges.<\/p>\n
We shall ensure the creation of the sufficient number of social houses, social flats, kindergartens, and boarding houses for the residents of Riga. <\/p>\n
We shall demand quality services from the municipality staff for each visitor, including an answer in the language of the visitor.<\/p>\n
We shall provide all the municipalities with a free interpreting service.<\/p>\n
We are ready to co-operate with everyone who wants Riga to become a flourishing industrial, scientific, tourist, and culture centre, open for close relations with the Western and Eastern countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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