14/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - Maris Kucinskis named prime minister. On Wednesday 13 January, the Latvian president asked Maris Kucinskis to form a government, following the resignation, in December, of Laimdota Straujuma. Kucinskis, a member of the Greens and Farmers' Union party (centre), was regional development minister between 2004 and 2006. He will try to form a coalition, in all likelihood along similar lines to the outgoing tripartite alliance between Straujama's Unity party...