Andrejs Judins

Andrejs Judins (born 21 February 1970) is a Latvian lawyer, academic, and politician who has served as a member of the Saeima since 2011. He is a member of the Unity political party, within the centre-right New Unity alliance.

Life Judins was born on 21 February 1970 in Riga, Latvia. His native language is Russian, and he is fluent in Latvian and English as second languages. He attended the Jurmala Secondary School no.2 (now ). At the University of Latvia, Judins studied law, graduating in 1993. He then attended the Latvian Police Academy, receiving a PhD in the field of criminal law in 1997.

Between 1991 and 2005, Judins worked as a civil science teacher at Jurmala Secondary School no.2. He has also worked with the Investigation Department of the and the Latvian Police Academy until 2009, was a researcher in criminal justice at Providus (a non-governmental think tank), and worked in the State Probation Service.

Political career (2011-present) In 2011, Judins joined the social-liberal Society for Political Change political party, and was successfully elected to the Saeima. He subsequently ran as a candidate for the Unity party in the 2014 European Parliament election, as the ninth candidate on the electoral party list, however was unsuccessful. He also ran unsuccessfully in the 2019 and 2024 European elections. He has been re-elected to the Saeima three times, most recently in 2022.

Judins left Unity to form Movement For! in 2017 over disagreements with the Unity party's strategic direction and activities.

Judins was the initiator of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the , which involved talks between oligarchs such as Aivars Lembergs, Ainārs Šlesers, and Andris Šķēle, and influential politicians such as Jānis Dūklavs, Mārtiņš Bondars, Jānis Urbanovičs. Inguna Sudraba was chosen as the leader of the commission report; her involvement was criticised, as she was also mentioned in the published records. Following the final report's release in January 2018, Judins added his dissenting thoughts onto the report in protest at its results.