- Aivars Endziņš
Aivars Endziņš (born
December 8 1940 inRiga ) is a Latvian lawyer and politician. He graduated fromUniversity of Latvia in 1968, in 1977 he attained candidate of legal sciences degree, but in 1997 he became Doctor of Jurisprudence. He has worked as a lecturer in University of Latvia and, later, in higher school of business "Turība". He was a member ofCommunist Party of the Soviet Union from 1963 to 1990, before he became member ofPopular Front of Latvia and MP ofSupreme Council of the Republic of Latvia . He was a short time member ofLatvian Social Democratic Workers' Party , but then in 1993 became a member ofLatvian Way . He was MP of 5th and of 6thSaeima , but resigned in 1996 when he became judge ofConstitutional Court of Latvia . He became the head of Constitutional Court in 2000 and left this office in 2007. He was a presidential candidate in the Latvian presidential election of 2007, nominated by theHarmony Centre and also supported by theNew Era Party and the political allianceFor Human Rights in United Latvia . After a passionate debate over his membership of Communist Party, which heated even more by discovery that in the 1970s he had denied the occupation of Latvia, he lost the election toValdis Zatlers , despite overwhelming public support for his candidacy.Fact|date=August 2008References
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