Māris Kučinskis is a Latvian politician and former Prime Minister of Latvia. On 13 January 2016 he was nominated by President Raimonds Vējonis to replace Laimdota Straujuma as the Prime Minister of Latvia following her resignation the previous December and his cabinet was approved by the Saeima on 11 February. He was the first Prime Minister not to be a member of the Unity Party or one of its predecessors since 2009, and the first from the Union of Greens and Farmers since 2004.

4 days after the 2018 parliamentary election, New Conservative Party leader Jānis Bordāns announced his party would refuse to work in a coalition with the Union of Greens and Farmers. Kučinskis was replaced by New Unity candidate Krišjānis Kariņš as prime minister on 23 January, 2019.

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