According to opinion polls carried out in February and May by the research centre Norstat together with the public broadcaster LSM, around a third of respondents said they had no interest in the EU elections.
Latvia’s Central Election Commission (CVK) says final voter turnout for the EU elections was stable at 33.7%, slightly up on 2019 data when 33.5% turned out to vote.
The figure is still a far cry from 2009 when more than half of eligible voters went to the polls.
And those numbers are at odds with a Eurobarometer survey conducted in April in which 65% of…