Jānis Bordāns

Jānis Bordāns
Minister of Justice
In office 23 January 2019 – 14 December 2022
Prime Minister	Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš
Preceded by	Dzintars Rasnačs
Succeeded by	Inese Lībiņa Egnere
In office 5 July 2012 – 22 January 2014
Prime Minister	Valdis Dombrovskis
Preceded by	Gaidis Bērziņš
Succeeded by	Baiba Broka
Personal details
Born	(1967-06-21) 21 June 1967 (age 57) Balvi, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	National Alliance (2012 – 1 November 2013) The Conservatives (2014 – present)
Spouse	Ingeborga Bordāne
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Latvia
Profession	Lawyer

Jānis Bordāns (born 21 June 1967) is a Latvian politician and lawyer, the Deputy Prime Minister and the former Minister of Justice of the Republic of Latvia from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 2012 to 2014 .

Bordāns served as Minister of Justice in Valdis Dombrovskis' cabinet from July 2012 to January 2014, representing the National Alliance party.[1] He later left the National Alliance and founded The Conservatives in May 2014, which he has led since then.

Led by Bordāns, the New Conservative Party won 16 seats in the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election, sharing the second place with another party in a fragmented parliament.

On 7 November 2018, Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis asked Bordāns to form a new coalition government and serve as the next Prime Minister of Latvia.[2] Bordāns intended to form a five-party majority coalition, and he announced that his coalition will not include ZZS, a political alliance led by a Latvian oligarch Aivars Lembergs.[3] However, other political parties wished to cooperate also with ZZS.[4] Consequently, Bordāns did not reach an agreement with the coalition partners, and informed the President that he is unable to form the cabinet.[5] In the following weeks, five parties agreed to form a coalition without ZZS, however, a compromise prime minister candidate from the smallest political party represented in parliament was selected.[6]

Thus, in January 2019, Bordāns took office for a second term as Minister of Justice and the Deputy Prime Minister in the centre-right coalition cabinet of Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš.

In 2022, his party lost elections, which meant he could not serve an other term. He was replaced by Inese Lībiņa Egnere.

Education

Bordāns graduated Riga Secondary School 39 in 1985. In 1992, he graduated from the University of Latvia and got a Master of Laws degree.

References

1. "Saeima tieslietu ministra amatā ievēl Jāni Bordānu" (in Latvian). Delfi.lv. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
2. "President Raimonds Vējonis on November 7 opted to nominate New Conservative Party leader Jānis Bordāns for the position of prime minister". lsm.lv. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
3. "Bordāns: Panāksim, ka Zaļo un zemnieku savienība paliek opozīcijā". BNN - ZIŅAS AR VĒRTĪBU (in Latvian). 2018-10-22. Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
4. Žukova, Katrīna (2018-10-24). "ZZS vieta koalīcijā – uz jautājuma zīmes". delfi.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2020-07-27.
5. "Latvia to look for new PM candidate after cabinet talks fail". reuters.com. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
6. "Krišjānis Kariņš nominated to be Latvia's next Prime Minister". eng.lsm.lv. Retrieved 2020-07-27.

External links

• Profile in web site of The Central Election Commission of Latvia Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
• CV in web site of Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Latvia