Mareks Segliņš

Samstag, 04. Juli 1970

Mareks Segliņš (born 4 July 1970 in Aizpute, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian politician of People's Party and a lawyer. He is the former , as well as former Minister of the Interior of Latvia. He graduated from Faculty of Law of University of Latvia in 1993 and afterwards worked in prosecutor's office and court of Liepāja city. In 1994–1998 he worked in law office Pomerancis un Kreicis. In 1998 he was elected to the 7th Saeima and was interior minister firstly in Andris Šķēle's and later in Andris Bērziņš' cabinet in 1999–2002. He was elected to the 8th Saeima and was head of the parliamentarian Law committee, a position he retained after being re-elected to the 9th Saeima, when he also became head of parliamentarian National security committee. In 2007 he became interior minister in Ivars Godma