Mareks Segliņš is a Latvian politician of People's Party

People's Party (Latvia)

The People's Party was a centre-right political party in Latvia. It described itself as a conservative party.Tautas partija was founded in 1998 by Andris Šķēle, a businessman and former prime minister, who was the chairman of the party until 2002. Because of Šķēle's powerful personality, many...

 and a lawyer. He is the former Minister of Justice of Latvia, as well as former Minister of the Interior of Latvia.

He graduated from Faculty of Law of University of Latvia

University of Latvia

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 in 1993 and afterwards worked in prosecutor’s office and court of Liepāja

Liepaja

Liepāja ; ), is a republican city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea directly at 21°E. It is the largest city in the Kurzeme Region of Latvia, the third largest city in Latvia after Riga and Daugavpils and an important ice-free port...

 city. In 1994-1998 he worked in law office Pomerancis un Kreicis. In 1998 he was elected to 7th Saeima

Saeima

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 and was interior minister in first in Andris Šķēle

Andris Škele

Andris Šķēle is a Latvian politician and Business oligarch. He has served two terms as Prime Minister of Latvia from 21 December 1995 to 7 August 1997, and from 16 July 1999 to 5 May 2000....

 and later in Andris Bērziņš cabinet in 1999-2002. He was elected to 8th Saeima and was head of parliamentarian Law committee, a position he retained after being re-elected to 9th Saeima

Saeima

Saeima is the parliament of the Republic of Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who are elected by proportional representation, with seats allocated to political parties which gain at least 5% of the popular vote. Elections are scheduled to be held once every four years,...

, when he also became head of parliamentarian National security committee. In 2007 he became interior minister in Ivars Godmanis

Ivars Godmanis

Ivars Godmanis is a Latvian politician and currently 1 of the 8 Latvian MEPs in the European parliament. He was the first Prime Minister of Latvia after the country became independent from the Soviet Union, and he became a Prime Minister for the second time in December 2007.Godmanis served as...

' cabinet.

He was widely cited in newspapers on February 20, 2008, following a 34-year-old English

England

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 man being jailed in Riga

Riga

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 for urinating

Urination

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 on the historic Freedom Monument

Freedom Monument

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. Seglins described the British

United Kingdom

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 people who cause trouble in Latvia when inebriated

Drunkenness

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, typically on weekends away for parties such as stag night

Stag night

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s, as "pig

Pig

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s". He also said "These people think it is a tradition to defile our monument. They are pigs, those British. A piggy nation." Despite this, drunken individuals from multiple nations have urinated on the monument.

In March 2009, Seglins became the minister of justice in Valdis Dombrovskis

Valdis Dombrovskis

Valdis Dombrovskis is the Prime Minister of Latvia. He previously served as Latvia's Minister of Finance and as a Member of the European Parliament for the New Era Party.-Education and science career:...

' cabinet. He stepped down in 2010, when his party left the cabinet.