The Prosecutor General's Office announces the appointment of two deputy prosecutors general

In the official publication of the Republic of Latvia, Latvijas Vēstnesis, on November 9, 2026, in issue No. 216, registered with the official reference OP 2026/216, a notice from the Prosecutor General’s Office titled “On the appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General” was published in the INSTITUTIONS section. The notice is located at position 1 of the issue and is the first of two notices with identical titles in this publication. In both cases, the document type is indicated as “Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office,” meaning it is an official notice from the institution, rather than a legal act or binding municipal regulations.

Context: who issues and where it is published

The issuing institution of the notice is the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the publication takes place in the state’s official gazette, which is the sole channel through which such personnel decisions are announced publicly. Notices regarding the appointment of the Prosecutor General and the Deputy Prosecutor General appear regularly in the official publication and are prepared by the prosecutor’s office itself as “information.” The publication date — November 9, 2026 — is the moment of official notification, allowing readers to record changes at the management level of the prosecutor’s office.

Two notices in one issue

In the content of the issue, the first positions of the INSTITUTIONS section are occupied by two separate entries with the same heading:

• Position 1 — “On the appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General”, Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office;
• Position 2 — “On the appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General”, Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The presence of both entries in one issue and one section indicates the simultaneous announcement of personnel decisions for two separate positions. The notices are numbered separately; therefore, they are to be preserved as two independent official entries with a common reference OP 2026/216.

Series of appointment notices this autumn

Notices regarding the appointment of Prosecutors General and their deputies have been published several times this autumn, and the November 9 issue continues this series:

• September 17, 2026, OP 2026/179, position 2 — “On the appointment of the Prosecutor General”, Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office;
• October 1, 2026, OP 2026/189, position 48 — “On the appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General”, Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office;
• October 13, 2026, OP 2026/197, position 4 — “On the appointment of the Prosecutor General”, Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office;
• November 3, 2026, OP 2026/212, position 1 — “On the appointment of the Prosecutor General”, Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office;
• November 9, 2026, OP 2026/216, positions 1 and 2 — “On the appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General”.

This sequence shows that high-level personnel issues in the prosecutor’s office were resolved gradually this autumn — first for the Prosecutor General, and then for the Deputy Prosecutor General positions.

Other content in the November 9 issue

In the INSTITUTIONS section, the entries of the Prosecutor General’s Office are followed by the Competition Council’s decision No. 49-2 on the merger of market participants (3rd position) and information from the State Plant Protection Service regarding the granting of breeder’s rights (4th position). In the local governments section (5th–10th position), the binding regulations and decisions of the South Courland, Ogre, Olaine, Ropaži, and Salaspils municipal councils are published, including amendments to the 2026 budget. The official notices block also includes Job vacancy notices (1), Inheritance notices (48), Auctions (31), and Enterprise Register notices (8), which characterize the overall volume of the issue.

Why this is important

The Deputy Prosecutor General is a management-level position within the prosecution service; therefore, every such notice signifies changes in the management of criminal proceedings and the distribution of responsibility for the progress of specific cases. For legal practitioners, defense attorneys, and participants in the process, the official publication is the basis for verifying which position has changed and since when, as the notice in the official publication is a publicly available reference. For general readers, it provides the opportunity to track the prosecution service’s personnel policy without access to internal documents — using only the official publication and its reference.

Official source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Latvia “Latvijas Vēstnesis”, No. 216, November 9, 2026, official reference OP 2026/216, INSTITUTIONS section, 1st position (and 2nd position) “On the appointment of the Deputy Prosecutor General”, Prosecutor General’s Office information. Publication: https://www.vestnesis.lv/url/17027?content=1 (document vestnesis-2026-11-09-216.full.md).