Edvards Smiltēns

Edvards Smiltēns (born 18 September 1984) is a Latvian politician. He was Speaker of the Saeima from 2022 to 2023.

Early life and education Smiltēns was born in 1984 in Riga, Latvia. He received his early education from Riga French Lyceum.

In 2014, he stood as a candidate for the Saeima elections, but was not elected. In December, he was confirmed as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Science, a position he held until March 2016.

In the summer of 2017, when the party "Unity" was going through a crisis, Smiltēns was nominated as one of the contenders for the position of the party leader, but on 19 August, he announced that he was leaving the party and its Saeima faction.

In November 2022, Smiltēns was elected as the Speaker of the Saeima. Due to connection with the new government in Latvia and United List remained in opposition, on 20 September 2023, Edvards Smiltēns loses the chair of the Speaker of the Saeima and his successor is Daiga Mieriņa. After that, he's was Secretary of the Saeima, until 28 May 2026, he became as Minister of Justice.