Antoņina Ņenaševa
Member of the 14th Saeima
Assumed office
1 November 2022
PresidentEgils Levits
Edgars Rinkēvičs
PremierKrišjānis Kariņš
Evika Siliņa
Co-President of The Progressives
In office
14 September 2019  29 April 2023
Preceded byRoberts Putnis
Succeeded byAndris Šuvajevs, Justīne Panteļējeva
Member of Riga City Council
In office
2 October 2020  1 November 2022
Personal details
Born (1988-06-17) June 17, 1988
Political partyThe Progressives
EducationLondon School of Economics
Baltic International Academy
OccupationTeacher, lecturer, politician

Antonina Nenaševa (born 17 July 1988) is a Latvian politician, educator. Currently a member of the 14th Saeima (Parliament), she serves on the Education, Culture and Science Commission and is a member of the Saeima Presidium. Member of the Board and founder of the Progressive Party.[1]

A. Nenaševa has been a member of the Riga City Council, Co-chair of The Progressive, a teacher of social sciences and economics and a lecturer of political science at Riga Stradiņš University.

Biography

She attended Riga Zolitudes Gymnasium, graduated from the Baltic International Academy with a BA in Political science in 2011, and obtained an MA in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2015.

In 2018, she joined the Mission Possible education program, becoming a social studies and economics teacher at Riga Secondary School No. 22.[2]

In 2021, she received the Gender equality Award from the Latvian Network of Women's NGOs for raising public awareness on gender equality issues.[3]

Political career

In the 9th and 10th Saeimas, A. Nenasheva worked as an assistant to Alexei Kholostov, a deputy of the Harmony Centre,[4] but was not a member of the Harmony Party.[5]

She held the positions of Secretary General and chairwoman of the board of directors in the youth organization of the party "Harmony",[6] a socio-political youth non-governmental organization.[7]

In the 2018 parliamentary elections, she ran unsuccessfully as the number one candidate in the Riga constituency.[8] She was also not elected in the 2019 European Parliament elections, where she ran as the number three candidate in the party list.[9] On 14 September 2019, together with Edmundus Cepurītis, she was elected co-chair of the Progressives party.[10]

In the 2020 extraordinary elections to the Riga City Council, Nenaševa was elected to the Riga City Council on the Development/For! and the joint list of the Progressives alliance. In the autumn 2022 parliamentary elections, A. Nenaseva was elected as a Member of the 14th Saeima. At the first sitting of the new Parliament, he was elected to the Presidium of the Saeima as a member of the Saeima Secretariat.

References

  1. "Jauns politiskais spēks cīnīsies par progresīvā nodokļa ieviešanu". Latvijā (in Latvian). 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  2. "Antoņina Ņenaševa". Puaro.lv (in Latvian). 2022-11-01. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  3. "Projekti – EAPN Latvia". www.eapn.lv. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  4. Delfi (2018-07-19). "'Kārnas brūtes' un sociāldemokrātijas privatizēšana: 'Progresīvie' par sevi un konkurentiem". www.delfi.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  5. "Kaspars Briškens: Nākamajai jābūt investīciju valdībai • IR.lv". ir.lv. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  6. "Antoņina Ņenaševa — Iespējamā misija". 2022-10-14. Archived from the original on 2022-10-14. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  7. "Leduslāčiem vieta ziemeļpolā, pingvīniem – dienvidpolā". neatkariga.nra.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  8. "Antoņina Ņenaševa / "PROGRESĪVIE"". www.lsm.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  9. ""PROGRESĪVIE" – Eiroparlamenta vēlēšanas". www.lsm.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  10. ""Progresīvos" vadīs Cepurītis un Ņenaševa". www.lsm.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
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