Latvian premier’s party comes out on top in general election

Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins speaks to the media while awaiting the results of parliamentary elections (Roman Koksarov/AP)

Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins’ ruling centre-right party has won the most votes in Latvia’s general election.

Centrist parties were runners-up and pro-Moscow parties crashed in a vote that was shaped by neighbouring Russia’s war in Ukraine and divisions among the Baltic country’s sizeable ethnic Russian minority.