The Prosecutor General's Office announces the appointment of the Prosecutor General in the official publication Latvijas Vēstnesis

The Prosecutor General’s Office published a notice “On the appointment of the chief prosecutor” in the official publication Latvijas Vēstnesis on October 13, 2026. The notice is found in point 4 of issue No. 197 with the official reference OP 2026/197. It is placed in Section I of the publication, “Constitutional Institutions”, subsection “Institutions”, where state institutions publish their official notices.

The header of the publication states that Latvijas Vēstnesis is the “OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA”. The publisher of the notice is the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the type of publication is listed as “Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office”. The notice was published in the same issue as news from other institutions, and the electronic version of the publication is available on the official website vestnesis.lv (publication address: https://www.vestnesis.lv/url/16999?content=1).

Official details of the notice

• Publishing institution: Prosecutor General’s Office
• Title of publication: “On the appointment of the chief prosecutor”
• Publication: Latvijas Vēstnesis, October 13, 2026, No. 197
• Official reference: OP 2026/197, point 4
• Section: I “Constitutional Institutions”, subsection “Institutions”
• Publication type: Information from the Prosecutor General’s Office

Previous notices regarding prosecutor’s office personnel

The Prosecutor General’s Office has also previously published notices related to the personnel of the prosecutor’s office in the official publication this year:

• On September 17, 2026, in issue No. 179 (OP 2026/179, point 2), a notice “On the appointment of the chief prosecutor” was published.
• On October 1, 2026, in issue No. 189 (OP 2026/189, point 48), a notice “On the appointment of the deputy chief prosecutor” was published.

In both cases, the Prosecutor General’s Office is listed as the publisher of the notice, and both notices were placed in the same section of the publication, “Institutions”. This indicates a regular practice of informing the public about personnel decisions regarding leading officials of the prosecutor’s office in the official publication.

Other institutional news in the same issue

In Section I of issue No. 197, news from other institutions was also published alongside the prosecutor’s office notice:

• Notice No. 23 from the President of the State regarding the performance of the duties of the President of the State and information from the President of the State regarding mourning.
• Information from the Central Statistical Bureau on consumer price indices from 1991–2026 by quarter.
• Two notices from the State Forest Service regarding the creation of micro-reserves.
• Binding regulations of municipalities, including regulations of the Daugavpils City Council and the Madona Municipality Council.

Why this is important

The appointment of the Prosecutor General is a high-level law enforcement personnel decision. Such decisions affect the organization of the prosecutor’s office’s work and public trust in the law enforcement system. Official publication in Latvijas Vēstnesis is the way a state institution informs the public about such a decision, and it ensures a verifiable source identifiable by date, number, and official reference.

The full text of the notice is available in the publication of No. 197 with the official reference OP 2026/197, point 4. For readers following the activities of law enforcement agencies, this publication is the primary source to rely on, as it comes directly from the Prosecutor General’s Office and is published in the state’s official gazette.

Official source: Prosecutor General’s Office, notice “On the appointment of the Prosecutor General”, Latvijas Vēstnesis, October 13, 2026, No. 197, OP 2026/197, point 4, Section I “Constitutional Institutions”.