On 20 June 1922, Latvia’s Constitutional Assembly adopted the Law on the Entry into Force and Implementation of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia. This short but decisive act stipulated that the Constitution adopted on 15 February would enter into force at noon on 7 November 1922, when the 1st Saeima convened; it also provided for the first Saeima elections on 7–8 October and the creation of the Central Election Commission.
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- 1920On 20 June, the 1st Latvian Riflemen, or Troitsk Battalion, left Vladivostok for Latvia via Japan; one of those on the journey was the future Latvian Army colonel Pēteris Daukšs.
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Footnotes
- 1.https://www.vestnesis.lv/ta/id/241070
- 2.https://lvportals.lv/skaidrojumi/342576-100-gadi-kops-satversmes-oficialas-publikacijas-valdibas-vestnesi-2022
- 3.https://www.historia.lv/biblioteka/skirklis/satversmes-sapulce
- 4.https://enciklopedija.lv/skirklis/127265
- 5.https://enciklopedija.lv/skirklis/138164-K%C4%81rlis-Ulmanis
- 6.https://enciklopedija.lv/skirklis/264430-P%C4%93teris-Dauk%C5%A1s
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